1. By Brandon Franks

2. The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design The best $20 I’ve spent on my education… Screenwriting Character and plot development Backstory and world development Overarching story Freytag’s pyramid Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Denouement Music Video Game Design

3. Judeo-Christian Angels Fallen angels Demons Nephilim Antichrist Apocalypse Greek Gods and demigods Prometheus Adamantine Mythology

4. Ernst Käsemann’s dictum: “apocalyptic was the mother of all Christian theology.” St. Augustine and the reality of “evil” The Fall from Heaven Conflicting views: Faithful vs. Fallen / Jedi vs. Sith Theology

5. Assassin’s Creed I - III Darksiders I & II Dragon Age I - II Infamous I & II Mass Effect I - III Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I, II, and The Old Republic Comparative Games

6. Left Behind God help us… The Matrix and Star Wars Contemporary apocalyptic films Supernatural Merging theological and secular apocalyptic genres Comparative Films

7. The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama Lord Raglan Book of Daniel Book of Revelation Genesis, Ezekiel, and Isaiah Cherubim, chapter one Seraphim, chapter six Darth Plagueis “More, that they should by all rights allow me to step not merely past them but on them to get where I needed to be, because the Sith are their salvation, their only real hope. In that we will ultimately improve the lives of their descendants, they owe us every courtesy, every sacrifice, nothing short of their very lives.” Revan The bridge between the light side and the dark side. Literature

8. Redemption Chapter One…