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Monday, October 18, 2004
Open for business.
The title says it all. ~_^
Before you jump to conclusions, I should point out that I'm referring to The Reanimatrix. I am very eager to give that thing a good kick-start, so that it may continue. I imagine that once a thread reaches the third or fourth page of OB Anthology, it tends to be considered dead. I want to overcome that, or at least, try to overcome it.
As I have mentioned millions of times, I still have some pieces of my own to add. Apart from time issues, I've been a bit stalled because one of them is really important and I don't quite know how to approach it. It's a bit iffy. Maybe you'll see what I mean when I post it.
As I mentioned in my last post, I created the index for The Reanimatrix, which was a surprising endeavour. In the end, it was interesting to just look at the list and see how much there was. This was one occasion where having no sign-up thread actually seemed to help it to blossom.
As most of you know (and as the thread itself states), The Reanimatrix is kind of a precursor to The Matrix Revelations, which is an RPG (rather than an anthology thread).
When it came time to create characters that would star in the RPG, I realized something very important; I already potentially have a whole host of interesting stars right in front of me. Apart from characters that already exist in the films (and that are still alive), The Reanimatrix contains characters that have come directly from the minds of OBers. So, it seems fitting that these characters should be included in the RPG in some form or another.
Of course, I'd want the creators to play as those characters. So that does raise another dilemma, since writing a short piece for Reanimatrix is quite different from being in an RPG (though hopefully no less interesting, at the end of the day).
For those of you who have already participated in The Reanimatrix, do you think that the RPG would interest you? Would you need to see the sign-up thread to determine that? And for that matter, is any current participant still interested in contributing more pieces to The Reanimatrix?
More than anything, I'd love to get more new people involved (as in, people who haven't yet contributed). But right now I'm also interested in testing the water and finding out what the interest level is out there.
I think the RPG will be something special, because I don't want to make it very action-oriented. Yes, it'll no doubt have plenty of that...but I'd rather make it more like an RPG version of Reanimatrix; more thoughtful, more character-driven and with some very far-out, mind-bending stuff.
I have been thinking of launching it early. I guess we'll see how it goes.
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