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Subject: Different Mission Formats...
Author: KittyEden
Posted on: 2015-06-25 11:17:00 UTC

The thread below sparked my interest, but when I clicked on it, it was about something else entirely to what I had thought it was.
So!

Have you guys considered doing missions in something different to just prose?
If someone's good at drawing, PPC comics could be a thing. And I briefly toyed with the idea of doing a radio play thing with my brother before he shot that down. Taking that a step further, animated missions (or even videos) could be a thing...

I'm basically just throwing down ideas here. An epic PPC ballad detailing the tracking down and killing of a Sue! An interactive choose-your-own-adventure type thing!
Possibly a mission that's written in reverse chronological order because of a time-travel accident at the end (or beginning, depending on your point of view).

Thoughts?

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Different Mission Formats... by KittyEden on 2015-06-25 11:17:00 UTC

Well... by JulyFlame on 2015-06-25 17:09:00 UTC Reply

They weren't missions, but:

There are recorded Radio Plays of two of the three play scripts that hS wrote ages back. He may well still have them on a computer, or one of the people who went to one of the UK Gatherings after around that time will as well. I also in theory have the files recorded by the others for the third one, I think. Not so sure anymore, since that's several computers ago.

I even made a Choose Your Own Adventure set in HQ that's ages old at this point (that I really need to find someway to get published again) that was eventually supposed to have a sequel indeed put in during a mission.

However, said CYOA was written and published way back in 2008 so it may well be some time before that ever happens, if it does...

-July, apparently as bad as hS

I have Scriptes 1 & 2. by Huinesoron on 2015-06-27 11:25:00 UTC Reply

In fact, I'm ahead of myself: they're already on Box.net.

The First Radio Play

The Second Radio Play

I haven't checked those files, so no promises they even work...

I don't believe I have anything for the third, though.

hS

Aha! by JulyFlame on 2015-06-27 17:28:00 UTC Reply

So they are. The wiki perhaps should be updated posthaste by someone with internet faster than dial-up (as in, not me.)

And as for the third, I thiiiink I have very old recordings from both you and Sara still on my portable hard drive. I think.

Probably wasn't making my point clear on the last thread by Rustic94 on 2015-06-25 12:55:00 UTC Reply

I was just curious as why ye don't seem to experiment around with doing missions or something.

Like have an agent try to educate a Mary Sue (not sure which types of sues would fit the idea, probably the ocs) on how to fit better into canon and get annoyed at the sue's failures at doing so until they get it right or are so stubborn that they stop trying. It could plenty of heart-warming moments with a dash of comedy, and the Mary Sue can be punished like those in those University pieces ye are connected with for getting things badly wrong.

As I said, it is just a suggestion. The whole idea can still run on the rule of fun and funny. I'd just like to see ye think outside the box and try experimenting with what you usually do around here.

I...hmm. by DawnFire on 2015-06-25 14:16:00 UTC Reply

You're making me think I should dust off a particular story I started (in response to what I have no idea anymore, but it was probably either a Permission prompt or something hS said. The later is especially likely). I won't say what it's about, not really, but it does sort of touch on some of what you've said here.

...yeah, I should dust that off. It's a fun one, IMO. Thanks for the reminder.

~DF

You're welcome :) by Rustic94 on 2015-06-25 19:38:00 UTC Reply

I like to see how much writers or any in a creative profession can experiment. As the Nostalgia Critic's version of Tim Burton put, and I paraphrase here, some risky ideas work, some don't, what counts is that you keep trying (which disappointing when I look at Sakamoto's case, in which he decided to give up on Metroid instead doing a reboot/remake of Other M or figuring out someway to fix the mistakes he made in its story) and folks will remember the better stuff than the worse stuff.

... unless you get really unlucky like M. Night, George Locus, Frank Miller and pretty everyone on this page:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/FallenCreator

Some you'd feel sorry for, others... not so much.

There's a comic! by Huinesoron on 2015-06-25 11:47:00 UTC Reply

Breathing Space was the second storyline in the only PPC webcomic that's actually been created yet, Generic Surface. Yes, it is a full-length mission.

There's also a Shakespearean play of an AU!PPC mission being, er... we'll say 'written'. ;)

(However: generally no, people don't, because prose is a lot quicker than any of those things. I will note that even first-person mission reports were pretty darn innovative back in the day...)

hS