[Bonus] // SILICON - The "Other" 2019 Project

Hello my friend~ :)

The New Year always gets me reflecting on the past and 2019 was a big chonky year for me. I was lucky enough to spend most of it with you but at the start of the year, I was actually working on another project. Something called "Silicon King".

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Long story short, before working on the Full Version of Pico Sim Date <3, I was working on this. Of course, I'm focused on finishing our current project now, but I thought it would be nice to take some time to show this little game off ;)

Silicon King is a Post-Apocalyptic Narrative-Focused Vapor-Punk Technology Business Management Game about an alternative universe Personal Computer Tech Race of the 1970s set in the infamous Silicon Valley. And yes... It's not a porn game. Weird right? :p

It was largely inspired by my love of my favorite game genre, business tycoon and the beautiful aesthetics of vapor-wave and future-funk. If anyone's ever seen the drama Halt and Catch Fire (which is amazing and underrated btw), I pretty much wanted to make a game about that, which was about innovating technology (mainly PCs).

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One of the big focuses of the game would've been Innovation and Mixing Technology. Focus on Communications and Computers, you get smart-phones. Focus on Entertainment and Computers instead, and you get video-game consoles. Or maybe you focus on Communications and Optical Amplification and manufacture giant orbiting satellites that fire laser beams and change your company to be a military-facing conglomerate. 

This is really the creative freedom I wanted to create for Silicon King.

Unfortunately I didn't get that far with the project before switching to PSD<3. In the video above, I compiled all the work I had. Most of it was nailing down the style I wanted and writing the game design. It'll be a while before I'll get a chance to work on it again, so I thought... why not share some of it with you... ;) <3

But 'til next time...

Back to work,
- Moosh