def initializeGame(game_id, max_players, start_sentence, end_sentence, length):
game_id = getNextGameID()
newGame = Game(key_name=str(game_id))
newGame.game_id = game_id
newGame.created = datetime.datetime.now()
newGame.can_vote = False
newGame.story = []
newGame.users = []
newGame.current_players = 0
newGame.num_phases = 1
#newGame.num_phases = 9
newGame.end_sentence = end_sentence
newGame.start_sentence = start_sentence
newGame.can_submit = False
newGame.display_phase = False
newGame.finished = False
newGame.started = False
newGame.users = []
newGame.game_length = length
newGame.put()
#storeCache(newGame, str(game_id))
return game_id
