Post by Souvarine on Jan 19, 2016 18:16:17 GMT
Alright chaps
This may be yet another example of me creating posts to discuss things that don't need discussing, but ho hum. I wondered whether it might be worth throwing some ideas around as to what we would like Commanders' Log to look like in a year's time, who we'd like to be reading it, how big it gets etc. In short: what is it all for and what do we want it to be?
It's quite clearly fan fiction, and it's a pleasing way to share our characters' exploits with each other and the wider disinterested world. For example, I'm looking forward to putting up Souvarine's log about finding the barnacles, because it will be fun to share something like that with you guys and it's nice to have a reason to take all those screenshots. I've never roleplayed before, but I have done a lot of creative writing - so this is a new and very fun direction for me.
However, I think that the three of us have created some pretty compelling characters, and what is becoming a pretty impressive story. A story that might deserve to receive a wider audience.
Elite has a rich tradition in fan fiction. In fact, the first game was released with a novella written by a friend of David Braben's called 'The Dark Wheel' (you can read the whole thing here - it's pretty good). It was designed as a way to add colour to what was essentially a monochromatic economic simulator with guns, but also to introduce the Elite world and concepts to new players. Since then there have been many books set in the Elite universe (even one written by Michael Brooks, the executive producer). The unique thing about Elite is that fan fiction has become part of the series' official canon on several occasions: for example, Raxxla, the Dark Wheel and several references to characters from earlier novels all make an appearance in Elite Dangerous - things that have in the past only appeared in fan fiction.
Elite Dangerous is the first game in the series to be an MMO, so I think it's kind of appropriate that what we're writing is the MMO version of a book: it's collaborative, open-ended and online. It's not a self-contained book like the others - if it had a physical equivalent it would be a comic book, with recurring characters and seasons.
So basically I've been thinking about what Commanders' Log 3301 could become, and I love the idea that it could become a respected piece of fan fiction, or even canon. A sort of online comic book that accompanies the game, that other players might enjoy reading and maybe some of them might want to contribute to, or weave their characters' story into. People might follow the story and talk about our characters, and recognise us in-game! Maybe in the future FD could even promote it themselves. Of course, enjoying the game comes first - Commanders' Log should add to that rather than become a burden and detract from it.
So what I wanted to ask you guys is: what would you like it to become?
If you think all of the above sounds a bit pie-in-the-sky and you want to keep it just for our own enjoyment that is totally fine, but I thought it best to throw it out there to see if we all have the same thing in mind.
This may be yet another example of me creating posts to discuss things that don't need discussing, but ho hum. I wondered whether it might be worth throwing some ideas around as to what we would like Commanders' Log to look like in a year's time, who we'd like to be reading it, how big it gets etc. In short: what is it all for and what do we want it to be?
It's quite clearly fan fiction, and it's a pleasing way to share our characters' exploits with each other and the wider disinterested world. For example, I'm looking forward to putting up Souvarine's log about finding the barnacles, because it will be fun to share something like that with you guys and it's nice to have a reason to take all those screenshots. I've never roleplayed before, but I have done a lot of creative writing - so this is a new and very fun direction for me.
However, I think that the three of us have created some pretty compelling characters, and what is becoming a pretty impressive story. A story that might deserve to receive a wider audience.
Elite has a rich tradition in fan fiction. In fact, the first game was released with a novella written by a friend of David Braben's called 'The Dark Wheel' (you can read the whole thing here - it's pretty good). It was designed as a way to add colour to what was essentially a monochromatic economic simulator with guns, but also to introduce the Elite world and concepts to new players. Since then there have been many books set in the Elite universe (even one written by Michael Brooks, the executive producer). The unique thing about Elite is that fan fiction has become part of the series' official canon on several occasions: for example, Raxxla, the Dark Wheel and several references to characters from earlier novels all make an appearance in Elite Dangerous - things that have in the past only appeared in fan fiction.
Elite Dangerous is the first game in the series to be an MMO, so I think it's kind of appropriate that what we're writing is the MMO version of a book: it's collaborative, open-ended and online. It's not a self-contained book like the others - if it had a physical equivalent it would be a comic book, with recurring characters and seasons.
So basically I've been thinking about what Commanders' Log 3301 could become, and I love the idea that it could become a respected piece of fan fiction, or even canon. A sort of online comic book that accompanies the game, that other players might enjoy reading and maybe some of them might want to contribute to, or weave their characters' story into. People might follow the story and talk about our characters, and recognise us in-game! Maybe in the future FD could even promote it themselves. Of course, enjoying the game comes first - Commanders' Log should add to that rather than become a burden and detract from it.
So what I wanted to ask you guys is: what would you like it to become?
If you think all of the above sounds a bit pie-in-the-sky and you want to keep it just for our own enjoyment that is totally fine, but I thought it best to throw it out there to see if we all have the same thing in mind.
