charlie had his angles...

[kumakami]

Keeton has his monkeys!

Hello monkeys. This week your mission, if your so inclined, is to review the nature of your choices in settings. What draws you to your fav setting? Why do you like writing the one you have?


Please comment with your thoughts....

[GSLamb]

Upon thinking about it, I prefer to remain obtuse.

[J.K.Mosher]

I like settings similar to the books and comics I read as a kid.
Spent large amounts of time reading TSR novels, Weis & Hickman
plus the Conan/Red Sonia comics.
so I find it "easier" to work in a fantasy realm/setting.

[Onix]

I really only work with Sci-Fi. I like Supers games but that's mostly Sci-fi anyway. Yes, yes there is plenty of fantasy in most supers stories but I like the Sci-Fi ones.

I grew up a Star Wars fan my parents took me to the movie when it came out. I was an infant but my eyes never left the screen. I identified more with Darth Vader than anyone else. Then my father got me into Star Trek as a tot. I identified with Spock the most. I often wonder if Spock is like me or I grew up modeling myself after Spock. I can't answer that with any certainty. My older brother and I watched Starblazers and Robotech early mornings before going to school. The animation and story were far better than the standard fare for cartoons at the time (which is saying how bad it was then). Comic books had a consistent but not overwhelming influence on my young mind.

As of the SW Prequels I've sworn off Star Wars, I just can't enjoy it anymore.

[J.K.Mosher]

I hear ya, about Star Wars and Star Trek.
The Original trilogy, was a constant for me and my brother when mom & dad rented movies.
IF we got lucky we'd get all three to watch, and watch, and watch

Star Wars . . . first movie I ever went to was "The Search For Spock" so
I'm a fan of the Star Trek . . . though I got into TNG, more then the original series.

I could try something in the Sci-Fi setting (I used to write short stories in such settings),
but I get daunted by the need to explain things . . .as for some reason (and I could be totally off base)
it's easier for many readers to accept the notion of someone creating a "Fireball" out of thin air
then it is for them to picture I guy/gal encased in a battlesuit, leveling a town.

[kumakami]

this week monkeys we have a special one for you, If you were to build a game around childhood and summer... where would you set it? A summer camp? theme park? just a holiday at the sea? tell us.

[J.K.Mosher]

The woods behind my child hood home.
Best adventures ever happened back there with my brother and cousin.

[kylesgames]

I'd set it in a school, but with a subtle Lovecraftian undertone, as the students try to figure out why they return to school during the summer and have some little underlying theme about how you can't escape your identity.

[Onix]

My summers (as a young teen anyway) often took the form of identifying an interesting abandoned building or subterranean structure and exploring it. Bonus points for getting to the top of the building or the deepest depth of a tunnel.

[SheikhJahbooty]

If I were to make a game about my childhood and youth it would be...

The land of Ayegali, a land of giant trees where it is always warm and everything is in bloom. Dangerous hallucinogenic mushroom forests hide the ancient gods and whole cities hang in the foliage of the trees harvesting the silk of monstrous spiders. Ancient technology of fallen winter civilizations waits to be discovered at the bottom of lakes or buried in the earth. And the evil city of Unala Gadu rules over the people with their mutant soldiers, ordinary folk transformed in their chimerical baths.

Basically it would be the world that my little plastic cowboys and indians and action figures inhabited.

Gamma World + Song of Fire and Ice + Mechanical Dream.