| From: | Kabael <kabael@****.NET> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: ReBoot Gaming Concept |
| Date: | Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:24:45 -0400 |
>I was watching ReBoot this morning (I really wish they'd show it at a sane
>hour, rather than 7AM... <Sigh>) and thought of an interesting idea to
>throw at yuor deckers.
>
>One of the concepts in the game is that these "games" get dropped in
>"Mainframe", the city that all the characters live in. The characters can
>enter the game by stepping into it (It appears as a HUGE glowing cube), or
>are sometimes thrown into it if it falls onto them and they can't escape.
>They are then forced to beat the game, and the "user", or else everyone in
>the game gets deleted. There may also be some other negative side effects,
>but I get to see the show so rarely, I'm still really sketchy on some of
>the concepts.
>
>Anyways, my point is, imagine if something similar happened inside the SR
>Matrix? Whether this is just an odd side effect of so many Video games
>that get played via the Matrix, or maybe even an AI having fun with random
>deckers. Either way, it might make for an interesting one shot for your
>decker, or even a random event that they get involved in from time to time.
>
>But, the deckers have to beat the game or they get deleted (Dumped with
>some mega shock and their decks fragged, or even killed).
>
><shrug>
>
>Just an odd little idea I thought of...
>
>Spike, you know more about ReBoot than I do... maybe you know what I mean
>and can explain the concept of Reboot better than I can,...;] i know
>you're a big fan...;]
>
>Bull
just be happy that it still plays there, I can't get it at all : (
American TV companies suck, they cancel all the good shows.
What if instead of having the players be the ones in the game, they
discovered that elements of the MAtrix were becoming sentient on their own
(maybe I am reading too much Mage with the Virtual Adepts). Has anyone read
_Count Zero_ by William Gibson? The kid in that book met *something* in the
Matrix that wasn't normal, what would happen to the SR world if metahuman
rights groups started calling for the recognition of virtual life?
k a b a e l meo the shoes :- ) kabael@****.net
some quotes from GoldeBoy, my very first Anime movie:
"This is SO educcational!" "This toilet overflows with my
tears..."
"Who started this?" "Is the music first?"
"When I took a nap, despite my cramming, my face became patterned like the
carpet."
