Movie Theater? Theatre? Cinema? Sinema!!!

Problem: Movies would take an awful lot of creative effort and time just to spawn the -idea-...not to mention the sweatwork of getting it all into the game.

Solution: Get the players to make them! I think it would promote some jobs that hardly exist today...you could have the director and actors, maybe even just somebody to pretend to be a cameraman. I have no idea how the NLM TV show thing works...is John actually an NPC or something? And as for the creative effort, someone could always just watch an old movie and 'translate' it to text, save themselves the effort of coming up with plot and characters.

Problem: Would it really be worth the effort?

Solution: Well...this is what this post is here to debate. But -I- think it would...I would send my character there on dates, if she was bored...anything. Especially if there was some new movie out. I don't know if it would be copyright infringement or anything, but the more I think about it the more I like the idea of taking actual movies and turning them into text. There are tons of things people consider 'classics' which I've never seen, and this would be a sort of way that both you and your character could see them. Whee I'm getting way excited.

Problem: Where the heck would we put the thing?

Solution: I think this is one of the biggest pluses for this idea...put the theater on Green! Some other post was discussing the problem of drawing more players to that area, and I think this would be a partial solution. It would also promote more high-level jobs..not exactly 'corpie'...but close enough.

Problem: Is it really something �that would be expected in a cyberpunk city?

Solution: N/A. This is a problem of opinion, and I'm hardly one to judge it. But I can offer this...if you think it's too 'fluffy', perhaps changing the content would remedy that? Could have propaganda movies or porn, would that be more themely? Heh. But yes...possibilities are endless. Anybody ever been to a movie in Thailand? You have to stand up, put your hand over your heart, and pledge allegiance to the king before you watch "Peacemaker". And then keep your feet off the floor the whole rest of the movie for fear of the cat-size-rats. Ick.

Alrighty then. Back to laundry.
*sigh*

(Edited by Lena at 9:35 am on Dec. 15, 2002)

See also the discussion in Script Development.

And it'd need to be a $play_script.

These are (now) done with a play script.

The magic behind the play script is you have complete control of your actors in the script: What they look like, their look place, their actions, emotes, says, whispers, etc…  And most importantly weather or not they're on stage of off stage.

Then you just write your 'lines' to be spoken/emoted/wispered/whatever, and then have your actors speak.

The script looks like this.

as %romeo
say "I hate this fucking place."

enter %juliet "Juliet marches in from the courtyard looking upset about something.
as %juliet
to %romeo "What was that?!"

Now, there are some very interesting implications when you substutite NPC's for players, and allow them to become slaves to the script. Presently the play script dosn't support this, but that's not to say it could in the future.

The other possibility is you could write the entire script with NPC's, then 'toggle' certian NPC's to be played by 'players' at runtime. Then the flagged NPC's WOULDN'T be created, WOULDN'T say their lines... instead a pause would be inserted for the player to say it, OR the script could stop until the player with the lines signals that he's said them and the script should continue.

Here's the bottom line on this one from the Admin side folks:

If you are going to take the time to write a 1-2 hour play script which people would accualy want to sit through, I will write whatever functionality you require to make it work as a script, and Johnny will build you a theater. But were not going to do anything until we've read the entire script because it is a large undertaking, and has a high probability of failure (failure being it never get's finished, not the movie is not a success).

So having said that, get writing kids. There's money to be made here! Lots of it!

-Kevlar

Okay, so basically on the scripting it's just:

%joe
<insert command here>

and that command will be run as if by %joe

so then would it just be:

%joe
@describe me as "Joe is goat ninja."(everybody else talks about goat ninja, so I figured I would too)

or is their more to the descriptions and look place messages.

Also, how do you do a message that are not linked to any person, such as:

"The crowd began to roar in aprroval at Joe's moving speech."

Now, off to think up some movie ideas.

(Edited by Hirononbu at 5:59 am on Dec. 17, 2002)

(Edited by Hirononbu at 3:17 pm on Dec. 16, 2002)

It is 2087. 85 years in the future. After a nuclear war, after the fallout. The SAME SHIT you get at the movies isn't going to be popular in 2087. Be a little more original please.

ILM already does some scary shit today, why cant an e-note do some crappy stuff too?

I'm pretty sure nothing there is crossing IC/OOC boundaries, but if anyone thinks it is, please say something.