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[thethrillof]

man. would anyone be interested in a game w/ the general premise "video games are their own self-contained worlds, in which most characters don't know said worlds are video games and not real"? either just a casual game w/ v simple apps or just an outright dressing room with moderators that need to keep an eye on things p well.

first draft thought thing is the rp game itself is a patchwork of a generic sims-style thing w/ added bits of the characters' worlds being rescued/recovered from deletion, slowly growing as more characters show.

shrugs!

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[rynet_ii]

Would it be limited to only video-game based canons?

[thethrillof]

i want to have it ota! only non-video game characters would have to make up some kind of gamelike canon for their backstory. (ex, if i threw the Ghost Host in there, his "game" would have been something like a virtual tour.)

there'd probs be a thing where you fill out info. not necessarily apps for entrance, just a character sheet, and it'd have a section explaining what their game is like. maybe it'd need some guidelines as to how the video game should be like in the case of differing canon. idk yet

[rynet_ii]

A post with some guidelines (or at least helpful suggestions for people who have trouble imagining what something might be like as a game) would probably be a good idea. (Or maybe just like. An open discussion post in the OOC side of things where people can ask for suggestions if they like.)

[goodmode]

this does admittedly pique my interest but i'm in such a general muddle atm i dunno if i could commit..... i like the idea a lot though!! 👀

[thethrillof]

i'm mostly just gathering if it's a remotely interesting premise to anyone else :V and yeah no same. if i actually do the thing it's probs not going to be until at least next month, it needs some Genuine Thought put into it and not just one (1) day of impulsive wondering

[goodmode]

yeah i get that. if i'm honest i have a rp forum set up that i've just never touched since before i left for camp. like, it was meant to be a fantasy themed oc rp but I CANNOT SEEM TO BE HAPPY WITH IT... my advice is just go for it dude. like as soon as you have the energy and interest just take it and run with it lmao

[thethrillof]

tfw indecisive

i want to make sure it makes sense! and also does appeal to other people. i know it's impossible to please everyone and i don't plan on trying, but solely hanging on to the most fascinating part of it for me--the goddamn massive existential crisis of most characters learning fully how they're just playthings--is not enough to fuel the absolute whole of a game on, probably :V also gotta decide on who/what's pulling ppl in rly. just, general things that need some thinky thought to it, most importantly when i'm not Exhausted all the time

[goodmode]

exactly!! it's not like we want to appeal to everyone but at least we want to be enthusiastic at ENOUGH people that we can build something out of it for longer than a week. life is hard!!! fuck!!!

i love your imagination though. if anyone has the skill to build something rad i think it's you!!!

[rynet_ii]

I keep trying to think of ideas/themes that one could use for the setting although my brain just tosses me stuff from Wreck-it-Ralph and Kid Radd.

I guess a lot of it would come to 1) Everyone coming from a world which exists for a person (or, people, in some cases) and relies on the actions of said person to metaphorically bring life to that world, whether it's through controlling the heroes on a quest, using an avatar to plant crops and go through the seasons, just clicking the "next" button in the visual novel, or whatever. So what do you do when the person you exist for just isn't going to be around anymore?

And 2) video games all have their own sort of rules- even the physics from one game to another can differ dramatically, so when people from worlds with such stringent but different rules meet, how do they adjust and react to the differences?

[thethrillof]

i mean, wir was def a huge influence :V at least the first one. aaand toy story. my Favorite Stuff, things unexpectedly being alive and good ol' buzz lightyear syndrome.

gotta make lives for themselves! and come to terms with a lot of their owl worldviews being utterly shattered. mostly.

sort of on the subject of 2) i was thinking about like. using frisk as an example first, possibly their body being comparatively invulnerable w/ their SOUL being the weak point, which would always pop out during any confrontation, or maybe just floating there in front of their chest 100%of the time. also, they probs can't run physically since they couldn't in undertale...except from monsters. how is that "running" different? the rules are so different between characters i'm not yet sure how to make it, like. reasonable.

and then even going back to 1) the "for people" bit, kind of--how different characters would be aware. for ut, late no-mercy run kiddos would be deeply aware, pacifist would be sort of aware, undyne wouldn't be aware at all. or the mgs protags, who regularly break the fourth wall but still act like everything is real to them.

i am possibly going to worry about all of this a little later.