First:
Well I’ve had an idea for an Online Life-esque sprite comic. Now I wish I could draw…
I sitll like the idea, but it’s kind of evolved intoa Martix-style concept.
The scenario I have is this: In an alternate world, computers are more advanced than here: IE, the VOS (Virtual Operating System) has been created. With a special computer, a person can actually mentally enter the Internet, via a method not unlike dreaming. The VOS produces an assistant not unlike the Navi in Megaman Battle Network, but not intelligent (With a few exceptions, mentioned below) and the world isnt’ nearly as computer obessesed.
That said, while “jacked into” the internet, you actually feel what your avatar feels, just like in the MAtrix.
The main character is a coder for the internet: he designs apps to be used over the net. He also (although he has no idea why) has the only intelligent Navi on the net (well two or three… one for his wife, and the other for his kid if I plan to include one). He thinks he might have created it, but he doesn’t know how. A breakthrough yes, but the Navi flatly refuses to replicate (“My programming forbids it”).
One of the storylines had the main character rushing to create a patch for a virus infesting the net: It disables the “kill bit”, that prevents a person from dying because they’ve “died” on the net, and prevents them from jacking out to protect themself, thus allowing them to be killed on the net. A friend is stuck with the virus, and his wife and said friend are fighting off said attackers while he tries to finish the fix before anyone gets killed.
The second idea was for a game.
Ever heard of mass disappearances? Such as the lost colony of Roanoke?
Well, an entire town disappears. Except one person, being you. You don’t know why you remain, but you take it upon yourself to figure out what happened to everyone. As soon as you go somewhere though, you’re attacked by something remincent of Silent Hill. So now monsters are appearing all over the place, you’re trying to figure out what happened to everyone (and the fact that you can’t seem to LEAVE town), and you have friends coming to visit. (who will help you during the game)
One villain I thought of was aliens taking the people for experiments for the perfect biological weapon: the monsters are actually transformed townspeople.
Another idea given to me (thanks Archone!) is the idea of “Proteus”. This is from an article he showed me:
The Ominous God
Researcher Richard Lazarus suggests that meteorites are behind these mysteries. During their fall on the ground, celestial bodies are charged with a potential as high as billions (!) of volt. On hitting Earth’s surface they explode with a violent force, as it happened near the River Tunguska, Siberia. But sometimes meteorites fall apart before they reach Earth, hitting it with a huge wave of energy that creates electrostatic levitation. Under these circumstances, large groups of people, ships or even trains may be lifted up and transferred across vast distances.
Ancient Greeks of the city-states situated in Italy attributed the disappearance of people to the deeds of god Proteus. Consisting of protoplasm it dozes underground and once in 50 years wakes up to have a meal. Proteus could transform into any thing and was imagined as coming to the surface from volcanoes.
So, people had to sacrifice to it a hundred of virgin slave girls leaving them near a volcano. And they disappeared without a trace, leaving behind only their fetters. The well-known American writer Dean Koontz in his horror book Phantoms favors a theory of the incorporeal god and believes that Proteus existed in realoty.
“It is an enormous mass of protoplasm covering maybe an area of some square kilometers,” explains Koontz. "Some millions years of age, it is probably one of the very first forms of life existing in the entrails of Earth or deep in the ocean. Once or twice in a century it eats people dissolving and digesting them almost entirely. Deep pools of water were found in the huts of Roanoke colony. A Chinese pilot searching for a missed train spotted from air a small lake that seemed to emerge from nowhere. Frozen water was found in the huts of an abandoned small Eskimo village on the shores of Lake Anjikuni, Canada, in 1930. The human body is 90 percent water, and that was perhaps all that was left of the dissolved victims of Proteus.
Of course, you have to be able to save the town, so they probably won’t be so much devoured as changed into monsters, yet again. REmember, PRoteus was a shapeshifter according to the Greek Mythos. Silly concept quoted, perhaps, but hey it’s never stopped anyone… And if it owuld make a good game…
What do you think?
I like the first idea! The virtual world should be made by Microsoft.
Oh, get outta here. Uh, anyway … What kind of sprites are you gonna use?
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All is i can add, is have a go and until with some stuff still to go, i’ll say:
That smells worser than on of my farts.
Eww! That is horible.
Let’s see … so far, we have fart jokes, and then utter randomness.