Proposal and Miscellany

So I think the Game Proposal project is coming along nicely. I've got my idea of what I want to work on, I'm doing the Cthulhu horror title, which is going to be a lot of fun. I've had a lot of experience DMing the Cthulhu role playing game, so I just need to come up with an original story. I'm really excited to start on it though!! I think I'm going to be focusing on the writing side rather than the drawing side. At least, I like to think I'll be able to write an interesting character, I hope I don't fall into any traps I've seen previous characters fall into. I don't want "Is Black" or "Is a Woman" to be a defining feature, because that's just ridiculous.

I also played through the Mass Effect 2 Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC yesterday. Really impressive, there was a lot there about great storytelling in games. One thing that really stood out to me was when you can read through your crewmate's mail and extranet searches. Most of the time, it's quite tongue-in-cheek, there's a mention of one of the characters looking up Dinosaurs and Sharks on future-google, there's somebody else's workout routine. Almost of nowhere, you find an email from a doctor to one of the female members of your crew, informing her that she's unable to bear children. It was really effective, but made sense in terms of that character and didn't seem like a cheap shot.

In other news, I've got a job! It's only 10 hours a week, but it's going to be enough. This has genuinely put me in a really good mood that will probably be hard to break (this is not a challenge)

This is how the wars get started.