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Message: 3074
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 13/11/2002
Subject: Re: alice in wonderland / book-adaptations
i_eat_teh_babiez wrote:
>"T HEB ADDR EAMH OLE" in We Pretty was inspired by Alice in
> i'm strongly considering doing a JSW (or possibly a MM game) based
> on alice in wonderland. i really don't know an awful lot about the
> work, but seeing as all my projects have been fairly whimsical, i
> want to make a game which is based on something else other than a
> shallow excuse for a platform game :)
Wonderland. I was terrified of that book as a child, and couldn't read
past the bit where Alice starts her long fall! ;-) Hence the long fall
from "T HEB ADDR EAMH OLE" in We Pretty.
Have you seen the short Czech film _Alice_, a sort of
Alice-in-Wonderland-turned-nasty? I thought it was very We-Prettyish,
not least because Alice was played by one Kristýna Kohoutová! :-) She
was just a little girl when the film was made back in 1988, so she'd
be in her early twenties now.
This discussion would not be complete without a mention of Geoff
Eddy's "Alice in Acidland" from Willy Takes a Trip! ;-)
> alice in wonderland SEEMS like an obvious choice, and seems like itBook-adaptations are certainly a very fertile source of inspiration
> might be popular. but beyond death TV (which is coming on nicely)
> and the MM game, i really want to do an 'adaptation' type game,
> because it is new to me.
for MM/JSW games, although on the other hand it's fun to create a
world of your own as I've done for We Pretty and Goodnite Luddite.
I'm very keen to do a seven-game JSW tribute to C.S. Lewis's
Chronicles of Narnia, but depending on how much free time I'll have,
I'm not sure whether to aim for a 2003-2009 release, a 2006-2012
release (after I've written Party Willy, JSW Iva, 3.AFRIKAAN, MM:
Allana Truman and possibly MM: 1.OUTSIDE), or even 2010-2016 to
celebrate the 60th anniversary of the books.
I also want to do JSW games based on Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist
and P.G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, possibly in the early
2010s.
Will alice in wonderland be a 48K JSW or a JSW128 game?
(Note to self: add alice in wonderland to List of MM/JSW Games.)
--
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/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/download/
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