|
>>
|
253500.jpg
Peach Buzzer
253500
>>144448
The inspiration is very hard to pin down. I've tried writing it like five or six times, but I keep erasing it. The inspiration for the plot comes from an interest in AI, long before the current AI summer, but the idea to put it into a quest format is a pretty long story. When I was very young, I would write super experimental comics where the joke had to do with the way the reader read it. I've attached a picture of a modern one. Anyway, I eventually got interested in webcomics and forum games (see the littlest cheese-maker or losing is fun on bay12 forums) These forum games all ended petering out, never really meeting a conclusion. In my mind, the only reasonable recourse was to create a completely new way of making comics and forum games so that it could never happen again. This led to me creating forktoon.com, which ended up being a failure since I couldn't get anyone to actually use it. The failure led to a harebrained scheme as part of my big plans.
The idea to do everything through a terminal is because I always feel compelled to make everything in a story internally consistent. I looked at older quests to figure out how they dealt with the multiple voices of questden, and none of the solutions really satisfied me. So I had the idea to use a debubgger as a framing device.
|