New Concept
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@BloodAngel said in New Concept:
I have been debating for some time on starting to work on a 1920’s noir Cthulu-inspired game with a hint of steampunk. Going to use ares to do this, the goal would be several mysterious events with a heavy amount of story-told plot.
Players would be mortals, delving by accident or choice into the mysterious of the old gods and the dark forces of the world.
I would be running it as seasons or chapters but right now it’s a very vague concept. More seeing if I build it would they come so to speak.
This reminds me of a game I stumbled onto on Xbox, that uh, might just be called Cthulu?! Call of Cthulu?! That was a kind of spooky mystery horror game that I enjoyed until I got too scared to finish it, lmao.
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One of several reasons I want to set the Star Wars game during the High Republic is because there are no Imperials around for people to want to play as/inspire them to go full space fascist.
But Star Wars doesn’t have to deal with real world history, so it’s easy mode in comparison. I have no answers for how to solve this, aside from ‘people did exist out of the closet, the puritans didn’t get around to erasing them until sometime between then and now’
… not sure if its bonus points to tie the the erasure into the plot! Like everyone forgetting about magic in Arx, or a more real-world example, the books from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft getting burned.
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@BloodAngel said in New Concept:
If it helps my vison is a combo of Deadlands and Call of Cthulu.
I insist that in your setting the Civil War never ended because Cthulhu was pleased by the carnage and kept raising the dead to fight the living any time it seemed a decisive victory was about to occur.
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@tsar said in New Concept:
This reminds me of a game I stumbled onto on Xbox, that uh, might just be called Cthulu?! Call of Cthulu?! That was a kind of spooky mystery horror game that I enjoyed until I got too scared to finish it, lmao.
If it was an older game, it might’ve been Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. Very loosely based on the story of the same name. First person? There’s a bit at the beginning with the main character investigating a creepy old house with a bunch of cultists in it and in the basement he finds some horrific device that opens a portal and lets in one of the Great Race of Yith.
Did you get to the part where J. Edgar Hoover comes to Innsmouth with a bunch of Feds and is a general assholish dick?
ETA: The full name of
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@tsar That is part of the inspiration for the game! I love that game!
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Random idea, and no real details beyond vague bullet points.
Game set in current era
Lovecraftian influences has limited technology or caused it to adapt differently
Everything is 1920s in aesthetic but you can then add meaningful tech advances that allow for that alt-tech feel such as steampunkBake the aesthetic into the theme, but provide modern adaptations.
I am sleep deprived so could have probably presented this more eloquently.
1920s aesthetic.
Lovecraftian themes.And now posted to the right thread.
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@GF said in New Concept:
I feel like we’re overcomplicating things.
Lol. What. No. We NEVER DO THAT.
but you summed it up nicely.
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@GF I’m very guilty of this all the time. But in a nutshell, yes that is it!
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Now to start to learn to code and build. INTO THE CREATION MINES!
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@STD said in New Concept:
@tsar said in New Concept:
This reminds me of a game I stumbled onto on Xbox, that uh, might just be called Cthulu?! Call of Cthulu?! That was a kind of spooky mystery horror game that I enjoyed until I got too scared to finish it, lmao.
If it was an older game, it might’ve been Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. Very loosely based on the story of the same name. First person? There’s a bit at the beginning with the main character investigating a creepy old house with a bunch of cultists in it and in the basement he finds some horrific device that opens a portal and lets in one of the Great Race of Yith.
Did you get to the part where J. Edgar Hoover comes to Innsmouth with a bunch of Feds and is a general assholish dick?
ETA: The full name of
this operational battle stationgame.This sounds familiar! I remember it taking place in really dilapidated seaside town, and you’re a private eye? At some point I think I was in an old hospital.
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@tsar THAT IS IT!
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@BloodAngel I have a renewed interest in finishing this game now, thanks, lol.
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Now I kinda wanna play the Sinking City again.
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@Testament Great game!
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@tsar Yeah, it’s basically just The Dunwich Horror, I think? Gotta fight Dagon Fish People?
Edit: no, I am dumb, Dagon is in Innsmouth, so more likely Shadow over Innsmouth? It’s spooky, I only know the end because of a let’s play.
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@Faraday Actually been writing the history, have the changes to the timeline already done up! So we do have a divergence point, that leads to why it is not the same. -
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Also, how can I be part of the Dagon cult if I am not racist against land-dwellers whomst are all made of food?
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So about that cthulu game
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@IoleRae said in New Concept:
Sorry I thought it was related to figuring out the moving parts for the game.
No, no, you’re fine! I think that @BloodAngel mentioned a few pages back that he was figuring out his potential direction on this.
I just sometimes feel like we have a tendency (as a group, I’m also guilty!) to pile our opinions on possible new game runners to the point it probably feels overwhelming.
