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I've Got a Dream

-Tangled Soundtrack

[tjellyfish]

What I'm (probably) working on next

After I "finish" Feesh, (no game I make is truly finished, as i can update it whenever the hecking frick I feel like it) I think I will work on a sort of MULTIMEDIA PROJECT type thingy.

I call it multimedia mainly because I'm kind of terrible at decision making and can't figure out what kind of media I want this to be.

Anyways, it will be something that is episodic; i will update it every whenever I can/feel like it. Because of that, my brain is all, 'make it a webcomic! people like those', but then another part of my brain is all, 'no, make it an animated series! people like moving pictures!' 'no, that'll take too long!' 'no, both of those ideas are crap! Make it a videogame, you know how to make those!' 

yeah

So I think I'll make each update be a random one of the above forms of media. If something important's happening or fight scene, then animated most likely. 

Car chase or something? Game. 

Just cool stuff? Comic. 

It's going to be about these two dudes right? And they're co-workers or something. They both do some pretty professional-assed programming. And in their spare time they like to make indie games *OMG JUST LIKE ME*. But you know, they don't get paid enough as sometimes happens in reality.>

It makes them feel like gods every now and then to manipulate things in their favorite game engine, where they are in control of everything *WHOA THIS SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE ME RIGHT NOW* 

wELL (this is where it gets trippy), through an odd chain of events that I have not yet figured out, 

they realize that 

they

are 

living 

IN

A

game 

FUckin 

ENGINE. 

and they get ahold of the console commands. 

soo, it's almost like they have superpowers, except whenever they want to do anything interesting, they have to say it in code. 

Javascript, specifically. 

Unity-Javascript, more specifically. 

I just like this idea because there is so much that I can do with it. 

As for how I'm gonna do this:

I didnt want to make this 2d cause im not the best at drawing a buncha scenery

but i didnt want it to be 3d cause im not the best at rendering a buncha characters

SO IM GONNA TAKE THE wow, that was obvious approach and render the backgrounds in 3d and draw the characters in 2D (I know some tv shows that do this; actually, some episodes of Avatar used this technique; can't think of any offhand though) 

except for the game, of course; everything will prolly be in 3d

WHICH IS GREAT, because i can pretty much be making the game scenery and animation scenery at the same time. 

UNLESS I choose to make the game 2D! OR WHAT IF I MAKE IT 2D IN A PARTICULAR UPDATE? 

anyways yes this is my thing, I may start it soon. 

hopefully this project isn't too big to handle/overly ambitious like many of mine are. 

but whatever, a big imagination is still a good thing. 

[tjellyfish]

About Stitch, a game by Tj > (Click to expand..)

Stitch features a somewhat dystopian city where all of the citizens have a sort of hypnosis under them that forces them to conform; with the exception of two people who have 'woken up', breaking out of this hypnosis, becoming self-aware once again. The city is completely sealed off from nature, which the governing power describes as "a toxic wasteland". The two who have awoken from this hypnosis want to find out the truth of what the forest really is, but realize that they can't do it themselves. They then create these robotic ragdolls called 'Stitchpunks' (similar to the character design found in "9" or Nightmare Before Christmas); It is their goal to find out what the forest really is, what is hidden there, and how to restore it to everyone's lives.

In the world of the Stitchpunks, different colonies form as time passes; but the main character of this story is in one of the worse off ones. In his quest to guide a human to the forest, he befriends a crow, a group which is typically an enemy to the Stitchpunks. 

In its attempt to grasp the minds of citizens, the city's regime focuses on encouraging conformity, eliminating individuality, and tries to bring differing ideas, brands, and beliefs to all be "of one".

"It's only for your protection..." 

I hope to have many people experience this story. Gameplay-wise, the first part will take place in the city, and will have more puzzles and cinematics. The second part will take place in the forest, and will introduce a combat system, and whatever else the mysterious forest has to offer. I hope to have a part where you play as the human in the story, but I am unsure if I will be able to make it or not; but more info about that will come later. 

"E pluribus unum. Of many, one"