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Message: 2809

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 26/04/2002

Subject: Re: Radiohead / Future Games

 

soa1000 wrote:

I thought briefly about doing a Radiohead-inspired game, but since
their lyrics have become increasingly abstract since OK Computer I
figured it would be much more work translating their songs into
rooms than I have time for. Maybe I'll sneak some references into
Soul Miner.

As a Radiohead-fan myself, I would love to see some references in
MM/JSW games! I haven't included any in my games so far (and I doubt I
could make them fit the Goodnite Luddite concept), but I have a couple
of Radiohead room-ideas lined up for, say, Party Willy.

As for the abstract lyrics, it will be an intriguing artistic
challenge to impart the atmosphere of a Radiohead song to a JSW room!

The lyrics of Kid A are abstract and fairly minimalistic, but "we've
got heads on sticks" gives me a concrete idea for a JSW guardian! :-)

The lyrics of Amnesiac are more concrete than those of Kid A. For
example, "Pyramid Song" lends itself to a fairly literal "Pyramid
Screen" interpretation - if I see a room in Soul Miner with a river at
the bottom and horizontal black-eyed angels, I will know that you
stole my idea! ;-)

Kid A is to We Pretty as Amnesiac is to Goodnite Luddite.

I just read over the future games section of your site. Wow,
I didn't realise how many Willy games were still in limbo out there.
Wonder how many are still in production

Roughly speaking, I try to order them by how much I still believe they
will ever be released! ;-)

But even those that will never be released still have historical
interest, and the ideas may yet provide inspiration for future games.

"And whether their authors make a run on the Internet, or whether
their authors do not, the games will be laced with the protection of
the word of God - the opposite of WILLY is YLLIW."
[parody of Prince's "Muse 2 The Pharoah" from The Rainbow Children]

--
Andrew Broad
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/

 

 

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