Cyberpunk is dead. We want to save her! Bring her back.Post your thought, ideas, works in process design documents and anything about the project in here! The competition closed for entries at the end of June 2010.
This one is my favorite of all the Cyberpunk projects so far.
How about just Snob for Alt, as in Rock Snob? (The sort who'll extol the virtues of the Langley School Music Project to the death, and would just as soon fight 10 guys as have to listen to something that's become so well-known that it's trite...)
Unfortunately the course that "Alts" have taken no longer fits the "snob" label. I originally conceptualized them as being their own music group, culturally, but I'm really digging the idea of them being the outsiders of other groups, the people who are trying a little too hard, who know a lot but just don't "get it" to fit in fully with the others groups, which in turn gives them a bit of flexibility that the other cliques don't have.
I am, however, thinking about expanding this game, after the competition is over. I already know that to get an entry of submittable size will require that I cut stuff out (I estimate that the first draft, sans pictures, will be about 35-40 pg). Adding additional cliques to a larger version would certainly be a good thing to include.
Also, thanks for giving me this chance to give a general update.
I have settled on "Gangsta" for the rap genre. It has been quite interesting "researching" (used in the lightest sense possible) these subcultures. I suspect that they are so over simplified and skewed that people actually in those groups might find them, well, poserish.
The "Meta-Talent" section is going well enough. The bones of it are done, but I want to add some examples (both straight up and "game play") of combining them.
I have a list of Equipment, but actually adding description and stats to them would probably be a good thing.
I haven't yet started on the "Monster Manual" section of it, where I'll give a few pre-stated baddies for players to face (both in and out of combat).
I still need to complete the "Background section" of the fluff by finishing up blurbs on organizations and giving a brief overview of how States have changed since the present day.
I only have brief notes for sample adventures (I'd like to offer at least two, an introductory and a follow up), so those are still a ways to go.
Then that just leaves pictures (photoshop is not wanting to cooperate with my computer). I have a style in mind, but I am entirely unsure if I have the ability to implement the style and having been denied access to photoshop is keeping me in suspense.
And then, after all that, I get to start on the second draft. Wooo! All in all, I'd estimate I'm about two weeks behind the schedule I had originally set for myself (which was to have a draft finished by the ned of March). Not too shabby, I suppose.