What if the great mad inventor wizard sage has created their most profound invention, a machine that traps a deity inside it?
“Yes, we agree, it’s the marvel of the age. Yes, it worked exactly as you claimed. There’s just one thing.
“It caught the wrong god.”
There’s a game idea I’ve had for about 20 years, and for some reason (*cough* Phaser HTML5 game engine *cough*) I’m revisiting it. The basic play design, even the playfield, has remained surprisingly consistent, although now the humour is even more puerile and the art style draws inspiration from Roger Ramjet. Especially for the cutscenes.
Or, Honesty in Fantasy Titles.
Personally I read all four of David Eddings' The Blue McGuffin series, and I enjoyed the Pern books up to All the Weyrs of Pern, which was a natural ending to the series.
After a while though, I began to notice much of fantasy and sf can’t escape the Comedy Troupe Take the McGuffin on a Road Trip format.
Ah… I remember reading this series when I was a kid. I didn’t know anything about Moorcock, but it was fantasy, and my uncle had the trilogy in exactly these covers.
“The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft contains all the original stories which Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It begins in 1917 with “The Tomb” and ends in 1935 with his last original work “The Haunter of the Dark.” The book is ordered chronologically by the date the story was written.”
Excellent! Well done Cthulhuchick.
In 2009 I created Precipitate Flood as a “freebie hound” avatar. While that didn’t last, she did visit the remarkable region of Pteron. You should too.
Pteron is… well, there’s a monastery on a floating island. There’s alien temple ruins in the water. There’s things I cannot describe. There are freebies if you can find them.
And it is beautiful.
UPDATE 4 MAY 2013: It’s closed, Jim.
