I did this with one thought in mind: in an adventure game, possibly the one mooted above (which I've taken almost no further because, to use what really should be my catchphrase, I've been a bit busy) the player could walk into a room and encounter a talking dog, who happens to be sitting in his favourite armchair watching TV.
Somewhere in my collection of photos, I also have a stuffed squirrel that I positioned on the edge of a desk so that it looks like it's sat working at a computer.
Also, on that memory stick I mentioned earlier, it looks as though at some point I re-thought the name Aberystwyth Smith to become Worcester Smith and started the thought process - hence "almost no further" above. The text I found says:
Worcester Smith
Worcester's name isn't Worcester, and he actually comes from a small town in Dorset - it's just a nickname he got when he was younger, after an incident with a bottle of Worcester Sauce. It was suitably embarassing, and not something he ever likes to discuss - but the name stuck, in an Indiana Jones type of way. And in that same type of way, it became quite appropriate since he grew up to become an archeaologist and, in a world with not much left unexplored, a leading explorer.
This is the first of the Worcester Smith Adventures...
In Worcester Smith and the Purple Crystal of the Heavens, you take on the role of the eponymous hero, and must guide him in his quest to find the legendary crystal of the title. It's a crystal who's origins are so mythical that even the people who made up all the legends and myths that you can read about in the local library, or watch films about on a Saturday afternoon on many obscure cable and satelite tv channels, hadn't included it in one, because, they said, it was just too unbelievable.
Those two pictures might not end up in that game - and to be fair, that game might never happen. But I thought I'd mention what I did, what was at the back of my mind, and what I found.
Posted by VinceH (VincceH) in Games
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