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WrittenWorldHQ
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What kind of stories are you going to tell?
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Let's say you had your hands on the game right now.. What kind of stories would you be most excited to tell? 

Sci-fi stories set in space? Post-modern epics where the chapters run backwards? Your grand fantasy dragon-heavy political intrigue A Game Of Seats?

What stories do you want to tell, and how can we best support you?



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I'd like to tell the story of a man who gets caught up in events far greater than himself. A story that starts out with a simple mistake in paperwork leading to the destruction of his home. That event is rapidly eclipsed by something far far greater and our hero has only a bathrobe and a towel to face the unknown... hmm... y'know come to think of it that sounds a bit familiar...

A young man with dreams of a more exciting life out amongst the stars. He is raised by his aunt and uncle helping them run their moisture farm... again it's ringing a bell.

Well my story ideas are still a bit rough and I have no idea how you can help yet. I just look forward to more news as the game gets put together.



-- Edited by meamgenius on Tuesday 14th of February 2012 05:35:01 PM

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You know I think a bathrobe\apocalypse combination could be a winner. Maybe if you think about adding some kind of robot.. An incredibly positive, upbeat one? I don't know, let's brainstorm it...

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A cheerful, not at all morose robot?  We could name him Marv... no Alvin!  With a nice squeaky voice that sounds like someone talking slowly was sped up on a recording.  

Ooh but apocalypses are always fun! There's your basic natural apocalypse, your man made apocalypse, your alien invasion apocalypse, can't forget the zombie apocalypse and then there are those who say the world will end in a tide of exceedingly over-excited springer terriers.  Admittedly there are very few who say that.  

 



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I really like the notion of starting with random bits of information and then creating a narrative from that, much like Meryl Streep's character does in Out of Africa.



-- Edited by misterverymean on Thursday 16th of February 2012 05:28:33 PM

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This reminds me of a story I began to write with friends as a youngster which began with the brief 'A series of escalating misunderstandings culminating in Apocalypse'

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Ooooh... Fantasy... dark, but hopeful... no sparkly vampires or pink unicorns... but perhaps a gritty hero who doesn't even know he is saving the known world.. maybe... but... then again... I do like some of meamgenius' ideas... 



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If there's one thing I'm good at it is bastardizing other peoples fine work into sick and twisted nightmarish caricatures. Plaguerism if you will. Sorry that was a bit of a stretch. What about pink vampires? No... that's been done as well. I read a book from b&n's free friday recently trying to make zombies cool. It did not succeed in my opinion.

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WrittenWorldHQ wrote:

Let's say you had your hands on the game right now.. What kind of stories would you be most excited to tell?

 I'm excited to do two things with this game/tool.

1-Develop stories that an artist friend of mine has trouble fleshing out. he'll come up with sparse details like: "a robot astronaught crash lands on a planet. where he's infected with tentacles. He needs to build a ship, but there's no metal. so, I dunno..."and then he claims he's not a writer. I'm excited that we could go through his ideas together, in the Written World, and flesh out something with more meat.

(in this case, i'm curious if the tool will let us keep our stories private).

2-Work out short form stories from a larger univese. Personally, I'm working on a super hero comic book, and have tons of characters and and arcs - jotted down on various scraps of paper. I've never tackled an 'ongong' or 'serialized' story before, so i've been struggling to decide which elements to work in, and when.

(in this case, I'm curious if it'll be possible to "replay" the same narrative with different partners. see the different ways a structure can be explored.

It'd also be interesting if there was some form of analytics that could help you evaluate your story over time. like, if I could click my character "luke" and see that he's not even introduced to the story for the first x amount of pages.).

(i'd also be curious if/how the game/tool might support short stories verses lengthy novels verses ongoing serialized comics with no end in sight. maybe this is just a game for short chapter-based novels. i dunno. but. curious.).



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I hope to break new grounds in a virtual landscape, run into surprising creatures and together take risks too dangerous in the real world. For me that's the essence of playing a game.
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I mentioned it in the comments a while back, but I envision a series of stories that, while different and at different times, all feature a specific location in some form. Over the course of the stories more will be revealed about the location and it's meaning, until the final story in which everything finally falls into place.

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I have a bunch of half-baked stories that I've been kicking around in my head for years. Maybe the interactivity will help pull things together a little more.

One of them is post-pocalyptic. There's a guy, and he goes on this quest with a girl named Roxanne who escaped from an underground retro-commune where it's always the 1970's. This guy, he's a self-taught nuclear physicist, and he's on a mission to destroy the interstellar corporation that is responsible for killing his parents, and preforming experiments on the inhabitants of what used to be America. It's a story about revolution, community, and facing your past. It's got revenge, love, danger... oh, and LOTS of rock and roll.

So, yeah, I like sci-fi a lot. I'll probably do quite a few sci-fi stories. I don't do as much fantasy, but there are a lot of similarities between fantasy and sci-fi. Especially if you're talking about space opera. Other varieties of sci-fi can be pretty distinct, but space opera is more-or-less equivalent to fantasy in space.

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