He thought about it a moment. "If the combat were less gruesome and more cartoonish, it could be available to a wider age range. I remember playing a Donald Duck sidescroller in which Donald never actually killed his opponents, but instead temporarily disabled them with a plunger gun! It was highly satisfying!"

He leaned back in his chair. "The key would be to make a game that portrays the godlings as humanly sympathetically as possible, so that gamers rallied behind their cause by the end."