Re: Computer Games
Posted by:
Barefoot Andy (195.188.86.---)
Date: August 21, 2007 01:13PM
I'm pretty sure Mr Ff has given disapproval to fan fiction, so unfortunately, he probably isn't too keen on games. Not that it'll stop us thinking.
I quite like the idea of a time playing-with game, (not necessarily Nextian), though probably you'd have different points you can enter and leave, with weird effects depending on what you do (Dropping phones in stone- age bad, but nothing like as bad as doing it in Victorian times).
Or maybe a resource management game, where you have to arrange a book, from basic outline to masterpiece, somehow. Possibly you'd release it at various "levels" of "story-ness", (short story, dream, anecdote, novel, epic, concept, pitch) which require various amounts of detail as things go on. you'd get resources by achieving the quality at the achieved level, but you'd get punished if you didn't deliver plot/ action/ characterisation at the expected level. Plan would be you'd need to work your story up to a novel and hold it there.
Hmmm, actually, as an RPGer, I'd be interested in seeing how you'd do rules for Bookworld characters in a way that fits something like Fforde's ideas while keeping options open.