Thursday, 28 January 2010

Curious Malady

Just to get the ball re-rolling because my last two posts (which by the way were due to Andrew sarcastically saying that the blog would keep him in the know about my eating habits and current feelings, chicken soup today quite nice - warm happy happy soup feeling) funny as they were, stopped our blog posts in their tracks.

So if you're done reeling around on the floor from that, I thought I'd put a quick post about this cool coincidence. Johnny did a search on Google for our blog - obviously no search results because I've hidden it from all prying eyes, top secret like ya know duh - BUT this is what came up on Google:

http://quantumperspectives.blogspot.com/2009/04/white-queens-strange-memory.html

Google search>>> curiousmalady.blogspot>>>

"The Queen finds this to be a curious malady, and tells Alice that her memory is certainly flawed!"

Note there's no search terms/ keywords for Alice in Wonderland there, it's just come up with Alice by coincidence. Isn't that cool!!?

It's such a cool title for the game: The Curious Malady of Eudora Fortesque

Hip Hip Hurrah!

Now then, how y'all doing? C'mon say something! Feelings? Eating habits? Let's have em c'mon!!
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  1. Ste29 January 2010 at 07:44

    Here's some more rolling balls: I think we should make a start on level design. Make a prototype. Like KARR in Knightrider, but more evil. My design philosophy is always to start as simply as humanly possible. So with that in mind I think we should do a room with a locked door. The 'puzzle' is to unlock the door and get out. The key is hidden in a chest. That's it. Brilliant, eh?

    It needn't go in the game, I think we should just do it to see if we can, and to get an idea of how the game would play if we actually got it running.

    Oh, and we should make a reference somewhere to that Alice passage with the curious malady thing in it.

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  2. Anonymous4 February 2010 at 19:10

    Hiya Ste, Yeah that's an ace idea. I think we should meet up in a dingy pub somewhere or possibly theme-related bar like Fab Cafe to discuss it in more detail.

    However in the meantime, here's my first thoughts: sod the prototype (we already know what we're all capable of and can do a room with a chect/ key) - it's taken us 6 years just to sort out a name for our game (The Curious Malady of
    Eudora Fortesque) and to decide on the style (graphic adventure) let's get cracking on the first level/area: The Dorms/ Ward where our main character, Eudora, wakes up.(<<<< THAT CAN BE OUR PROTOTYPE)

    So in order to do that we need a story-line - which we already have, it's just scattered across several emails. SO, I'm gonna root through all emails and paste em into the blog by date so we can see what we've already said. As chances are, we've forgotton some of the gems we've already discussed. I also have alot of notes and scribbles so I'll upload those to the blog too.

    ALSO, come to think of it we need to add our concept designs to this so that we can all remember each other character concepts. I also have those saved to disc so I'll upload those too.

    I think it's a good idea to build a prototype level 1 area (as we can still use that as a foundation for level 1) - Besides, have you heard of the crimson room? A fantastic flash puzzler....check it out:

    http://www.fasco-csc.com/works/crimson/crimson_e.php

    (You'll need to copy and paste the addy into your browser)

    Have you heard of it's sequel the Viridian room?

    http://www.fasco-csc.com/works/viridian/index_e.php

    Check this out tooo:

    http://shut.in/articles/5-hardest-escape-the-room-games-of-all-time/

    There's a whole lotta rooooms :D


    K, prototype level 1: The Dorm/ Ward - How's that sound to everyone? That way we can use everything from the prototype and build it up over time.

    K...We'll need a backdrop/ environment/ cool background artwork...level 'furniture'...some characters...more character concepts....a SOLID storyline....


    Let's meet up one evening for space invader crisps, peanuts, a film? A night at the fun-flat/ a trip to das kino?

    Hmmm...ramble ramble...off to do the washing up...tea soon...yum :D

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  3. Anonymous4 February 2010 at 19:33

    Found another link:

    http://shut.in/

    Another copy n paste into browser :P

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  4. Anonymous4 February 2010 at 20:02

    PS Just ate tea...delicious...It was made by Johnny, yum yum...mince meat surprise, with yellow peppars, mushrooms, monkey brains, mince meat...

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