For those of you unfamiliar with the title, please make haste to http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/ and repent. Even though you probably won't make it in time to see the title in-game.
Sorry for my less-than-brief hiatus in the blogging scene. I've been extremely busy doing nothing. Interestingly enough, I haven't had the motivation to come on during my break betwixt semesters. Laziness breeds laziness.
However, I have had myriad thoughts on diverse topics, and therefore, I have some junk to speak on! Pull up a chair, ask your honey, brother, sister, aunt, neighbor, congressman to get you a sandwich and a stiff glass of your favorite non-alcoholic beverage (remember your resolution!), and let's get started!
There's something I've thought about quite a bit throughout the ages, and I've thought about quite a bit more today. It's something I actually partially hashed out. In my head. I'll jot it down eventually, I'm sure.
I've played a lot of KoL. More than some, less than others, but a lot. No matter how bored of it I get, I'm always intrigued by the je ne sais quoi factor that, unlike other you-can-do-this-much-in-a-day-and-that's-it online games, keeps me coming back. Despite month-long absences from the Kingdom, I'm always coming back to farm Meat (the currency), beat down Alphabet Giants, chat it up with the people in /c games, and explore the quirky, absurd, and humorous planes wrought by Assymetric Publications. And that French phrase is also to blame for my trains of thought today: making an online game.
Consider this situation. You are a six-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. You wake up one morning and your momma and papa have vanished! Not really an original idea, but roll with me here. You probably cry a bit, then get into the cookies, then build a fort of mattresses and cushions and bed covers, or something like that. Then you see all your neighborhood buddies, dressed in their school clothes or pajamas or their favorite superhero underwear outside. And you go out to play and find that the sky is all green and ALL THE ADULTS IN THE WORLD ARE GONE!!!!! Well, at least in your neighborhood, you're certain.
Then Billy, the neighborhood bully, comes up to your friend Joey, your best buddy/friend forever, and tries to whack him/her with a stick, only to find that your retro video game-obsessed friend has sprouted telepathic powers! Billy gets the smackdown laid on him by his own stick and goes home to cry to his mo- er... - his dog.
You and your friends have great fun playing all day and eating ice cream as you watch Joey build a tree house with the power of (gender appropriate possessive pronoun) mind alone!!! But when you go home to watch your favorite cartoon, you find that Greggory, the Spastic Eel isn't on. Instead, there's some crappy infomercial playing over and over about world domination and the removal of all aged figures. Uninterested, you turn it off, helping yourself to another spoon of ice cream before wrapping yourself in your blankets in the middle of the floor. Then it hits your developing mind. Quickly, you recover the remote and see some nerdy eighth-grader talking about repelling the crushing thumb of those in power by engineering a biochemical virus to be released in the troposphere to cause mental manipulation in all homo sapiens whose nervous systems are fully developed and effectively remove them from the populace. As the nerdy talk winds down, you find yourself struggling to stay focused when he puts it in a nutshell: "The RECESS virus has made kids across the world free to do as they wish for a time. However, once I seize control of the necessary facilities, I shall be emperor over all!" To aid you in understanding exactly what this kid is talking about, subtitles flash on the screen for about a minute: "My name is Edgar Wolters. I took the parents. I will be your leader. A leader is someone who can tell people what to do." The fiend!
... Or something like that. I've considered more technical parts of the game as well, but they aren't nearly as interesting. I'll have to get a more concrete idea of how things are and maybe post some thoughts here. And maybe some expert programmer will say, "Hey, what fun this will be to make. Here, Richard, I volunteer to make this happen. You can have all the credit, and when we're raking in teh monies, you can have 60%." And maybe I'll get elected President.
Or maybe I'll actually have to work for this.
Tell me what you think! As for now, my arms hurt from all this hypothetical hashing. Ice pack, plz.
