TheRedStranger

Feel free to. 🙂

I can help. It just depends on how you want to do this. You want to make sure this stays in your hands creatively. How much writing experience do you have currently? And how much material do you have right now? If you can give me a small pilot of ten pages, I can really get a feel of what you’d like to accomplish.

Make it so, Number One.

@Mike Arcade Find any more on this project?

I would say so, as it is a software used to mechanics gameplay. Which is in the thematic realm of that topic. Character sheets seem to be a part of that conversation, but probably cannot stand as a whole for constantly flowing and lively topic. If things ever get busy in the future in that thread in a convoluted way - we can simply split it into two threads pertaining to hardware and software. Or we can do that now. It’s up to you. @Mike Arcade, @Wulfsbane, @MoKat I motion a merging, with a thematic split between hardware and software in mind of things grow too busy.

Advisory wise, @Mike Arcade.

Not presently, last time I checked. I prefer to use PM’s and forums due to their permanence and ease of organization. Small talk and such creates a lot of chaff. When you work over a series of projects and 10K pages of material it can be quite the headache to manage. 😬

You have a concept that has a lot of meta fictional and philosophical subtext potential. The idea of being in a fragmented soap-bubble micro verse is also interesting. I am typically busy with my own projects and art, however I can offer, as I do with many, editorial help and writing advice. I have roughly 13 years of experience writing, written thousands of pages of fiction, a BFA, and have published in high school and college. I would be happy to help any way I can as a creative advisor.

We hope to see more soon. Also we are currently updating the Satam section.

I think things like this deserve their own gaming expos. Fan gaming expos would be a great layer to fan conventions.

First things first, there has to be some sort of light hearted breather. And one area that has not been explored enough in Sonic is the challenges of rebuilding. There is a lot of drama actually in piecing things back together. You can also get more character drama out of it, Star Trek Next Generation style. I would be fun to have to deal with some weird culture that was fractured because of the outbreak, and there is now a dramatic power struggle to thrust on the characters. Ideas?

Hope all goes well with this. Is it largely online?

Hence my broader rebranding. Feel free to share any art here. 🙂

lHere is one. Here is two. Here is three. Think the nineties have them beat.

Merged some threads together. Overall this thread is still about the state of the video game industry, it’s contentions, trends, and possibilities. If you have an idea of where video games are going, should go, have gone wrong, etcetera, this is the place.

Here we talk about a gaming genre Class, the shady rogue-like. From Darkest Dungeon to Balders Gate. I have merged some old topics to fit this thematic core.

Broadened to include all survival horror games.

Seeing art like this is important. It helps us see what the intent was despite technological limitations of the Genesis. The colors, and more complex designs and forms, should be the gold standard for anyone seeking to make more up to date iterations of classic Sonic material. Good work finding this stuff, Mike.

Featured, merged with the old Dream thread, and expanded the subject better for more conversational breadth. This is now not just about cool fictional places you wish you could explore, but fantastical aspirations, and your own dreams (or interesting nightmares).😴

These Commercials are a great historical barometer of brand identity. You can see that in the Nintendo versus Sega one strongly at the start. You can put them in chronological order and actually get a glimpse of how Sega wanted Sonic to be perceived over time. In the aformentioned’s case, it’s being better than Nintendo, their main monopolistic rival. For the ones that have a negative reaction (like those really weird Nintendo commercials) you can get some sense of how the consumer expected the branded product to be.

To give this a good idealogical frame work I would explain all this in this way. I think every party is wrong on protectionism. And it’s had major cost to people all over the globe. Protectionism is just like violence, just in an abstracted economic form. Republicans are wrong because some time retaliation is necessary. They are being passive. While Democrats (And Northern Republicans like the Hooverittes) are historically sadistic when it comes to this. Ironically I think Trumpian policy is a lot like the libertarian idea of the NAP in trade form. I hate the idea of protectionism the way I hate war. It’s destructive, but sometimes it’s morally necessary. And it sacrifices some of your people’s life blood in its execution fiscally. You should instead think critically about it as an extension. Free Trade is the ultimate destination, but you cannot kowtow while China or Brazil assault you in this regard. We spread eagled to Canada for example and it subsidized (with their people money unfairly) lumber and dairy during NAFTA literally to destroy those markets in places like Idaho. Ask @ByTor, Prince of Ro’den sometime. His dad’s job was lost for a while because of it. It hurt his family and is vocal about it. Obviously, we need to respond to protectionism their same way we should respond to any form of aggression, in a measured way in hopes to deescalate. It is 99% unneeded, but when you have aggressive groups like China, who steal your IP’s and engage corporate and cyber sabotage to give unfair leverage to their national corporations - it’s time to strike in return. India gets it, sadly it took passivity leading to actual physical manifestations of aggression to retaliate to this more abstract sphere of conflict. Good. I am concerned about young people being addicted to Skinnerian style apps and content algorithms by China, so they can make a quick global buck at the expense of people. That has been a huge problem. They can easily weaponize crappy phenomena like this:

Is it?

How is the local atmosphere over tik-tock affected all this?