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Message: 2809
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 26/04/2002
Subject: Re: Radiohead / Future Games
soa1000 wrote:
>As a Radiohead-fan myself, I would love to see some references in
> 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.
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,Roughly speaking, I try to order them by how much I still believe they
> I didn't realise how many Willy games were still in limbo out there.
> Wonder how many are still in production
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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