Weekly progress report #59
Added 2021-02-07 12:06:48 +0000 UTCHey! Do you know that Daphne from Scooby Doo has the last name Blake? I remembered that yesterday, and became obsessed with the idea to dress Blake like her. The result is… this. Everything is kinda wrong. Uncanny even. But it is what it is. It seems that during their adventures, Daphne, and Scooby have lost Fred, Velma, and Shaggy, but got themselves a new van. Have you ever seen the movie A Boy And His Dog? Actually, nevermind.
So. Hello again to the weekly progress report. There's not much to talk yet, because I'm still going through some preparations, but there's a couple of idles scenes rendered already, and I finalised the new dungeon Melinda is going to use for leisure time… Actually, it's not a dungeon anymore, but a room, but its windows are not transparent, so… whatever.
Aside from that, I pretty much finished the «zero draft» for the first demo, which means I have a schedule of most of the scenes already. There are some blank spaces, and that means some funny event polls the next weeks. Tanya is not going to offer Blake more jobs for now, but I know at least several people who waited for quite long for their turn with Blake's fun parts. Kushari is among them, as well as Troy, I also want to give Jamal some more scenes (not exactly of sexual kind), bring Coco more often (cause bimbo Blake understands her now), there's some unfinished business with Gillian, and maybe we'll see more of Lucia. I'm very excited about all of this, and hope you are as well.
Overall, so far we have 14 pictures, one background, and a couple of sprites. If I'll make more tomorrow, we'll get our regular sprite post. If not, stay tuned for the important story poll this Tuesday. So… that's about it. Thank you, and have a very nice day!
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Merlin1941
2021-02-08 16:00:47 +0000 UTCI’m mostly interested in mundane day-to-day details of such life. Like, how it is to have a church visit in your regular schedule. How come there are hundreds, and hundreds of different churches, and what makes people change one for another. How much is there of spirituality, and how much it’s just a routine they’re used to. Stuff like that.
Yeda Games
2021-02-08 15:29:32 +0000 UTCThere's a bright, straight line from the social morality of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies in particular to QAnon, none of which is likely part of history curriculum outside specific university classes in the rest of the world. Hell, more than half the people here in the US don't even know about it unless they grew up in it, got out, and started learning from real historians, which I did. If you have questions about it I can probably answer them, and I can assure you it's fertile ground for wildly dystopic fiction ideas. :)
Merlin1941
2021-02-08 14:26:20 +0000 UTCIt’s less about the movie itself, and more about the context of it, and what it inspired in the future (like the entire Left Behind series, and other things like that). I’ve always been fascinated by how religious, and specifically Christianised American society is. I remember watching American movies in my childhood, and seeing all that stuff like prayers before dinner, people getting married in churches, celebrating Christmas, etc, and thinking: this is really, really weird. And while it was never a focus of Shattered’s story, sometimes my characters make off-hand comments about that.
Yeda Games
2021-02-08 14:14:38 +0000 UTCI get A Boy and His Dog and the others, but A Thief in the Night? Unless that's a bit of the inspiration for Forthwall and his namesake intrusions, I'm just going to assume it's not much of an influence on the current state of the story. A Thief in the Night isn't as crazy as it seems when viewed through the lens of cyclical moral panic that inspired it and its American Evangelical roots. Anyway, it's a pretty bold inspirational choice.
Merlin1941
2021-02-08 14:07:17 +0000 UTCNot really, considering it was created over fifty years ago.
Wild Bill
2021-02-08 12:25:59 +0000 UTCThis, Zardoz, Mad Max, A Thief in the Night (a terrible Christian propaganda movie with some really great atmosphere of 70s insanity). All of these movies, and many more, are what is constantly boiling in my head as I develop the world of Shattered. It's too bad I can't afford fleshing it out more, cause my priority will always be Blake's story, and other characters, but I want you to have little glimpses into the outside, where you can see how truly bizarre the new normality is.
Yeda Games
2021-02-08 08:58:59 +0000 UTCI think Suya would make a great Velma. She's just as curvy. But isn't it weird how white the world of original Scooby Doo is? There are no minorities at all in it.
Yeda Games
2021-02-08 08:55:47 +0000 UTCWho picked her costume again? 🤔 ...Though she did want that kind of matching costume thing, and while she'd look cute dressed as Velma it's a little questionable dressing up as someone of that different a race.
Wild Bill
2021-02-08 03:31:11 +0000 UTCA Boy and His Dog served as partial inspiration for the original Fallout, among other things. It's such a bizarre and weirdly hilarious film.
Merlin1941
2021-02-08 01:54:51 +0000 UTCThat's what I thought, too, but to be fair, Blake probably has never even heard about Scooby Doo. That's more of a Suya's thing.
Yeda Games
2021-02-07 18:21:36 +0000 UTCHot! She should have worn that to the Halloween party.
Wild Bill
2021-02-07 18:20:08 +0000 UTC
