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Is this the time to say that I have a longer than normal fic about Carre and Jaiden? Fully unedited,, is this the time to say that I had two or three different ideas for more purg fics? Should I post them?
irredeamable development retrospective. Part 1: shadow and light This is gonna be pretty messy since what came before or after gets all tangled up when you go back this far, but the earliest project that can be identified in the file is a game about controlling a specter where you could take control of all kind of people or creatures and use their unique attacks and movement ability to navigate the world.
We got humans, cats, snake, ants, succubus, and my beloved mitons, a race of giant rolly polly pillbugs.
Aniway, the story eventually developped into being about a rivalry between two specters sibling. Nox and solaria. They also each came with a unique appearance for each race they could control. Through, i sadly never did make their mitons form...
The idea behind the game was that each chapter, you would awaken as one of the two and try to usurp and destroy whatever the other had built in your absence. Nox eras were more focused on primal cults of fear and darkness while Solaria would make grand empires to worship her. There was a back and forth between the two but time and technology would progress with each era. All i got left when it comes to how the world would have been laid out is this line map that shows the general ways the area connects and the ideas of how certain locations could change depending on the era.
There were also plans to introduce a new antagonist later on with Cain, a new, much more powerful specter that forces the sibling to make a truce. His backstory was that he used to have a similar rivalry with his brother able, but eventually ended up destroying him and is now deeply sad and alone.
So how far did it go? The game pretty much didn't get out of the conceptual phase. Got around to code the possession mechanics and a few of the races' movesets, but that's about it. Anyway, you`re free to get inspired by or even steal anything here. I have way more ideas than i can actually use and everything in these old projects has either been abandoned or altered so much that it's now something completely different. See you next time for the next chapter of our retrospective. Capitalism, IN SPACE!
so you know how in a couple of my earlier posts showing JJ promo art there's been appearances of this robotic hand in a few of them? like in a couple of the Easter ones it appears as like a prop or in the background. well, it actually originates from an early concept for Jetpack Joyride's UI that is seen in the The Art of Halfbrick' book in the section showing concepts for the games Barry's been in. it shows what a logo and UI system for a "2.0" of Jetpack Joyride might have looked like, and it's very... interesting.
i wonder what this robotic hand was meant for. does he have a name? on one of the Easter artworks (the one with Barry sitting on the floor and eating all the chocolate eggs), they have the acronym of EEDD written on him, but i think that was just for the art piece because the acronym doesn't appear anywhere else. what's this funky guy even meant for in the lab? i have so many questions about him and i kinda love him... also wtf does "seano" mean??? is THAT their name?? huh???
NIИ | The Day the World Went Away (scrapped music video) | Appears as Easter egg on And All That Could Have Been DVD | Directed by Rob Sheridan | released on January 22, 2002, by Nothing and Interscope Records
NIИ | “Bleedthrough” conceptual art & web imagery | 2003-2004 | All art by Rob Sheridan dragging paper through an old printer & mixed media
“based around the NIN album concept for “Bleedthrough.” The album eventually changed conceptually and became “With Teeth”
NIИ | And All That Could Have Been DVD | Halo 17 | Directed by Rob Sheridan | Released on January 22, 2002, by Nothing and Interscope Records | Artwork: David Carson
Additionally: Original release date teaser, og design, and working unused titles
NIИ | March Of The Pigs BTS of original scrapped video | 1994 | Photography by Joseph Cultice