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yubishines) wrote2017-07-25 12:59 pm
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Story concepts/pitches - some of these I envision as games/VNs, some not. This is to keep myself focused on at least one of these and not go haring off on different projects.
Everyone's Gone To The Fire (joke working title)
You saved up for ages to buy a ticket to the festival. A holiday on a luxury island, big-name musical performances, fun and games with expensive prizes, bumping elbows with celebrities... Something must have gone terribly wrong. This is not the vacation you were promised. The place is littered with caved-in tents, cheap plastic chairs, styrofoam takeout boxes, and no people. Where is everyone?
Walksim. Some poor rando who only wanted to have a fancy luxury weekend, now armed with nothing more than their walking shoes and a phone with no data plan. The Fyre Festival fiasco x Dear Esther.
Nadie
You've been abandoned. There's no other explanation: One day you simply woke up and no one was there. Yet your town is clearly still inhabited - plants flourish as if they've been recently watered, cars change positions when you aren't looking, cups of coffee at the local cafe are still warm. It's like your secret paranoid fears have been proven correct -- that the world has, collectively, decided that you don't belong and somehow moved on without you. Can you keep from falling into despair long enough to discover the truth?
A florist loses the ability to perceive other people -- unless they've slipped sideways into another dimension -- unless everyone else in the world has been raptured and they're the only one left -- unless something even more sinister is the culprit. This may actually be folded into the previous pitch, although I envision this as suburban horror versus being stuck on an island. Adventure game?
Absinthe (working title)
Following the dissolution of her marriage, Finley accepts an invitation to stay with a long-distance friend, taking the opportunity to clear her head and put her life back together. Upon arrival, however, she finds that her host has vanished, there's a message warning her not to look for him, and the neighbours are distant and peculiar. When Finley disobeys the note and begins looking, she learns more than she bargained for -- and something seems to be encouraging her on.
A ghost story. Conceit: taking characters I developed for TSW and putting them in a slightly more mundane setting.
The Hero's Collection
Nia's mother is a hero - a real one, with a silver sword and armor and a list of deeds as long as a river. Nia is very proud of her. Unfortunately, heroes tend to make dangerous enemies, and for Nia's own safety, she's lived all her life in a lonely house on a cliff in the middle of nowhere. Nia doesn't mind -- her mother is a very busy person, and there's always someone from the nearby village who comes to deliver groceries. Anyway, she's known all her life that she's too sickly to handle the outside world. Her mother told her so.
A fantasy story about a girl called Nia and her best (only) friend (who she just met) (and who keeps asking all kinds of weird questions) (like "wtf") looking for her (totally legit) mother. Loosely based on the fact that I inadvertently played Skyrim as the actual worst parent.
Possibly set in the Cursed North setting.
The Worm In The Castle (extremely working title)
Beauty and the Beast set in Bloodborne. This is still a loose bundle of ideas and #aesthetic, so no real summary for now.
Also maybe set in the Cursed North.
Untitled Space Story Thing
Out of four colony ships from Earth, only one makes it to the target planet - which turns out to be almost completely covered in ocean. Several years later, after a long time of struggling with the terrain (or lack thereof) and a quarter of the expected manpower, a project to reopen communications with Earth or seek the missing colonists is sabotaged. Who is responsible, and why?
Technically this is the oldest concept here. Unfortunately I realized a lot of what I had was me going "wow! cool aesthetic!!" at a bunch of different scifi and not actually having any coherent theme, and I'll have to rip up almost everything I had written and start over. WHOOPS.
Everyone's Gone To The Fire (joke working title)
You saved up for ages to buy a ticket to the festival. A holiday on a luxury island, big-name musical performances, fun and games with expensive prizes, bumping elbows with celebrities... Something must have gone terribly wrong. This is not the vacation you were promised. The place is littered with caved-in tents, cheap plastic chairs, styrofoam takeout boxes, and no people. Where is everyone?
Walksim. Some poor rando who only wanted to have a fancy luxury weekend, now armed with nothing more than their walking shoes and a phone with no data plan. The Fyre Festival fiasco x Dear Esther.
Nadie
You've been abandoned. There's no other explanation: One day you simply woke up and no one was there. Yet your town is clearly still inhabited - plants flourish as if they've been recently watered, cars change positions when you aren't looking, cups of coffee at the local cafe are still warm. It's like your secret paranoid fears have been proven correct -- that the world has, collectively, decided that you don't belong and somehow moved on without you. Can you keep from falling into despair long enough to discover the truth?
A florist loses the ability to perceive other people -- unless they've slipped sideways into another dimension -- unless everyone else in the world has been raptured and they're the only one left -- unless something even more sinister is the culprit. This may actually be folded into the previous pitch, although I envision this as suburban horror versus being stuck on an island. Adventure game?
Absinthe (working title)
Following the dissolution of her marriage, Finley accepts an invitation to stay with a long-distance friend, taking the opportunity to clear her head and put her life back together. Upon arrival, however, she finds that her host has vanished, there's a message warning her not to look for him, and the neighbours are distant and peculiar. When Finley disobeys the note and begins looking, she learns more than she bargained for -- and something seems to be encouraging her on.
A ghost story. Conceit: taking characters I developed for TSW and putting them in a slightly more mundane setting.
The Hero's Collection
Nia's mother is a hero - a real one, with a silver sword and armor and a list of deeds as long as a river. Nia is very proud of her. Unfortunately, heroes tend to make dangerous enemies, and for Nia's own safety, she's lived all her life in a lonely house on a cliff in the middle of nowhere. Nia doesn't mind -- her mother is a very busy person, and there's always someone from the nearby village who comes to deliver groceries. Anyway, she's known all her life that she's too sickly to handle the outside world. Her mother told her so.
A fantasy story about a girl called Nia and her best (only) friend (who she just met) (and who keeps asking all kinds of weird questions) (like "wtf") looking for her (totally legit) mother. Loosely based on the fact that I inadvertently played Skyrim as the actual worst parent.
Possibly set in the Cursed North setting.
The Worm In The Castle (extremely working title)
Beauty and the Beast set in Bloodborne. This is still a loose bundle of ideas and #aesthetic, so no real summary for now.
Also maybe set in the Cursed North.
Untitled Space Story Thing
Out of four colony ships from Earth, only one makes it to the target planet - which turns out to be almost completely covered in ocean. Several years later, after a long time of struggling with the terrain (or lack thereof) and a quarter of the expected manpower, a project to reopen communications with Earth or seek the missing colonists is sabotaged. Who is responsible, and why?
Technically this is the oldest concept here. Unfortunately I realized a lot of what I had was me going "wow! cool aesthetic!!" at a bunch of different scifi and not actually having any coherent theme, and I'll have to rip up almost everything I had written and start over. WHOOPS.