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Monday, April 5, 2004
Reanimated
Thanks to those who responded to my last post. I got some great responses, which is always cool. It's great to hear people's thoughts on the subjects that I ramble about. ~_^
I spent more time on my upcoming RPG yesterday. I've designed a Jukebox (which Tony has been kind enough to assist me with, on the coding side) and I've begun to develop a more robust framework for the story and characters.
Remember how I mentioned that I'd be making characters that others would be selecting for use in the RPG?
Well, I've begun to actually develop the backgrounds of these characters. The only real thing I've excluded would be the specifics of their personalities. I want the participants to do that.
But as I created these backgrounds -- mostly for my own notes -- I realized that I wanted to go into some deeper explanation. I also realized that, rather than provide a relatively quick summary in the sign-up thread, I'd like to give a more fully-loaded background.
So this led me to an idea; The Reanimatrix.
It will go up before the actual RPG. And it won't be an RPG, it will be a collection of short stories in the Literature forum.
How will it work? Well, I'm going to post my short stories, based on characters from the upcoming RPG itself. But I'm also going to let anyone post their own Matrix-related short stories. They might post a ghost story, for example (remember that ghosts are a problematic assimilation in the Matrix?), or something entirely different. It doesn't have to be related to my RPG at all.
Basically, it's going to be like a second Animatrix, but it will be text-based.
I was also thinking of posting short stories from professional authors, who worked on the comic/short story projects for the Wachowski brothers. So, it'd be a big mish-mash of my own short stories, "official" short stories (that aren't on Animatrix) and the short stories of anyone who chooses to participate.
They can lay the story out as they like, they can write a poem, they can include images, they can do anything at all. I want it to be totally free and open.
But also, hopefully it will get people into the right mindset, so that when the RPG does launch...they might be interested to take the extra step. And it will give me the chance to see who has written some really great Matrix-related stuff.
What do you think of this idea? I think it might be a novel approach in the Literature forum.
EDIT: Well, the thread is now online. I have an interesting idea, to tie it to my new RPG as well. If you're interested, click here to view it.
I encourage everyone to have a go at their own short story/poem/comic, etc. ^_^
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