More Cult of the Amateur

[SheikhJahbooty]

Are you interested in RPG stuff that no kidding is the future, and isn't obnoxious, and doesn't callously use children like a resource because they know old people fear children and old people are too ignorant to know that you're fear-mongering with your marketing videos?



Should you be afraid? Only if you used to get paid for creating children's literature. If you do produce children's literature, I am so sorry. You must feel terrible. People can have fun making their own children's books with cool art and print them themselves, or even make them into slide shows for their kids to watch on plasma screen televisions. Call all your friends who make children's TV shows. Warn them. Let your fate be a lesson to others.

Why am I showing it to you monkeys? Because I am going to use it. At the very least I am going to lay out a RPG on that website. It just looks too fun. At the best, I am going to play some bizarre diceless transhumanist -style game on there or something, where we use pre-secured narrative authority and bidding to be the one who writes the next few pages.

This is the real future. If you get paid to do something that someone would find fun to do in his spare time, you need to be so good at it that people are stunned, or grow your hair out and go live in a commune, or just find something unpleasant to get paid to do.

[Chainsaw Aardvark]

Zounds man - don't do it! What will you do next - create some sort of mechanical loom what will out us humble weavers out of work? Or an automatic cart that will reduce the need for stable boys and hand-wrought horse shoes? Where will this insanity end?

Good luck with the project. Something that is mostly image with only a little text per page sounds like a really wonderful way to design an imagination based game.

[Onix]

That's worth checking out, I'd agree, something like that is the future of RPGs. I'd say an RPG in that format would be most likely to take off as a group activity if you had a cell app that ran the story. There's a lot of interface issues there but you could go playing all day with your friends even at work. Something like a text message RPG maybe with pictures like these that are available to be inserted.

This may exist but I haven't seen it, a friend asked if there was a text message dice roller out there. He wanted it because he could broadcast rolls to people even if he wasn't at the table.

[koipond]

I'm curious. Tell me when you start because I think it might be fun to collaborate on something like that on that website.

[Rob Lang]

I'm chucking my sabo into the cogs of this machine for a start! It's very cool, perhaps restricted by the choice of images but as the volume of drawings increases, so can the number of stories that can be told!

As for graphically obsessed RPGs, I'd know nothing about that.