Re: [glob2-devel] Universe Background, political correctness

[Cyrille Dunant]

On Monday 27 February 2006 03:41, Matthew Marshall wrote:
> On Sat 25 Feb 2006 08:02, Stéphane Magnenat wrote:
> > I also think there is no
> > use to link glob2 to any humanity. But I also like this story, it is
> > quite fun and its mix of Starcraft, Hyperion and real world politics
> > makes it funny. Nevertheless, as funny as it can be, it does not fit
> > glob2's universe ambiance.

Yes. It was fun to write, though :)

> Personally, I like how glob2's background story already is: absent.
>
> There is no explanation for why the trees are pink, how anyone could call
> those circles 'wheat', or even what the globules, in fact, /are/.  This is
> all left up to the player.  The player is free to explain (or not explain)
> these phenomenons with their own imaginations.  One player sees it as
> another dimension.  Another sees it as some alien lifeform.  Or, perhaps a
> scientific experiment.  Or even bubblegum overrunning a candy store.  Or
> perhaps the player simply accepts that it is, and thinks no more of it.

Perhaps this adds to the abstract nature of glob strategy...

> To me, glob2 has an entirely different feeling than any other game, and I
> think this is why.  I am able to interpret what I am seeing how _I_ want to
> do so.  I'm not restricted to the view of someone else.  (however
> entertaining they may be.)
>
> Glob2 seems to have a certain sense of 'wonder' around it.  Provide
> 'official' answers to the questions, and you remove the wonder.  I think
> this is why Slann's story doesn't "fit glob2's universe ambiance."  I think
> this is why no story ever will.

Well... Some story might, but it probably would be very bland... Happy-happy 
stories are bland :)

> Although, I do realise that this makes it incredibly difficult to make a
> campain :D

Yes and no. The _structure_ of a campaign would not be affected. Simply, you 
have to reduce yourself to creating interesting strategic and tactical 
problems in order of growing complexity.

-- 
-- Cyrille Dunant
-- (Slann)
--

   Hanlon's Razor:
        Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity.

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