Ivan Rosenguard
05-06-2007, 01:33 PM
But I forgot that I am me. Much of my game so far seems to bounce around from absurd silliness to dark and gritty reality; and then to short bits of off-the-wall sci-fi action. Not how I planned it, but family and friends who have seen my game in this stage have said it gives it alot of character, so I'll go with it. I actually think it gives the whole moral statement aspect of the game more character.
I'm a big Kurt Vonnegut fan, so I'm sure my love of Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions has something to do with this...
I want people to play through my game and be excited by the battles, but be heartbroken by their outcome (people die in battle. I will not be sugar-coating or glorifying anything). I want people to WANT to laugh at the game's absurdities, but feel unable to because of the tragedy that many of these silly things imply.
And if you think about it, both our world and this future one I've created have so many absurd stipulations and pitfalls, that it is very hard to write about its problems without it sounding so damn hilarious!
I really wish I could post screenshots, because I do think the whole building machines from all of RPGM3's middle-age objects really gives the game a very..."Brazil" feel in that all of the technology looks very impractical and outrageous. Anyone seen that movie? Its just a cult film, but it was a hilarious dark comedy I couldn't bring myself to laugh at because it seemed so real and current (even now more so than in the 70's when it was made) what with all of the talk about terrorists and all of the bureaucracy ruling the world and machines everywhere watching you and performing tasks. I found it all hilarious and very disturbing. An entire catastrophe caused by a single man who accidentally typed the wrong name on a form. See what I mean by tragic absurdity? That's the tone I'm going for.
I'm a big Kurt Vonnegut fan, so I'm sure my love of Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions has something to do with this...
I want people to play through my game and be excited by the battles, but be heartbroken by their outcome (people die in battle. I will not be sugar-coating or glorifying anything). I want people to WANT to laugh at the game's absurdities, but feel unable to because of the tragedy that many of these silly things imply.
And if you think about it, both our world and this future one I've created have so many absurd stipulations and pitfalls, that it is very hard to write about its problems without it sounding so damn hilarious!
I really wish I could post screenshots, because I do think the whole building machines from all of RPGM3's middle-age objects really gives the game a very..."Brazil" feel in that all of the technology looks very impractical and outrageous. Anyone seen that movie? Its just a cult film, but it was a hilarious dark comedy I couldn't bring myself to laugh at because it seemed so real and current (even now more so than in the 70's when it was made) what with all of the talk about terrorists and all of the bureaucracy ruling the world and machines everywhere watching you and performing tasks. I found it all hilarious and very disturbing. An entire catastrophe caused by a single man who accidentally typed the wrong name on a form. See what I mean by tragic absurdity? That's the tone I'm going for.