Sci-fi inspirations for a MA game
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Sci-fi inspirations for a MA game
I'm already thinking about how to use a Logan's Run type of society in one of the city areas of the ship. And after recently seeing Wall-E, I have some ideas for a refuse level too.
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Re: Sci-fi inspirations for a MA game
Is there somewhere to get the plankton and sea greens from?
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Nice!GnomeBoy wrote:Is there somewhere to get the plankton and sea greens from?
That would be a great robot encounter. That's one of the encounters I'm thinking of with a twist.
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Re: Sci-fi inspirations for a MA game
Having recently read all three of the Logan's novels, I was thinking the EXACT same thing myself....JonHook wrote:I'm already thinking about how to use a Logan's Run type of society in one of the city areas of the ship.
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Re: Sci-fi inspirations for a MA game
I have a copy of the Logan's Run trilogy. I read the first one years ago but never got around to the other two. How does the quality compare to the first one?
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Re: Sci-fi inspirations for a MA game
Out of curiosity, have any of you ever seen the old series from the seventies called The Starlost? It was a Canadian Sci-fi show set on a generation ship where (stop me if you've heard this before) the crew was wiped out in an unspecified disaster and a group of primitive humans have to try and save the ship before it plows into a sun.
Bad effects, OK to bad scripts, and well OK to bad acting. If you're a fan of the genre I suggest at least one watching, because when I see the Warden I picture parts of The Ark.
Bad effects, OK to bad scripts, and well OK to bad acting. If you're a fan of the genre I suggest at least one watching, because when I see the Warden I picture parts of The Ark.
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I have not seen The Starlost, sounds interesting. I'm going to find some vintage sci-fi books and look for some inspiration in there too.
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Man, I was just a BIT too young (by, say, 5 years) to be able to watch--and understand, at least as much as those nonsense plots were understandable--those types of sci-fi shows.
There was a recent Community episode where the school becomes a 70's retro-futuristic "utopian dystopia" with togas and rainbow space-makeup and MeowMeowBeenz. I was both amused by and impressed with how succinctly they were able to sum up 70's sci-fi.
There was a recent Community episode where the school becomes a 70's retro-futuristic "utopian dystopia" with togas and rainbow space-makeup and MeowMeowBeenz. I was both amused by and impressed with how succinctly they were able to sum up 70's sci-fi.
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Oh BTW I'm OttawaTom. I'm waiting for my account activation email. I met finarvyn at Gary Con this year and complimented him on his MA shirt. These are a few screen shots from The Starlost.
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Pandorum would be perfect.
Essentially you have a colony ship leaving earth, then it jumps forward and one of the crew wakes from cryo and the ship's systems are down.
Essentially you have a colony ship leaving earth, then it jumps forward and one of the crew wakes from cryo and the ship's systems are down.
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Do I see Baltar in that last Starlost picture?
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Yup John Colicos pre-BSG I think, alongside Barry "Space: 1999" Morse and later on in the series Walter "Chekov" Koenig had a returning role as an alien by the name of Oro.JonHook wrote:Do I see Baltar in that last Starlost picture?
The rest are all out of work actors from Toronto, and Keir Dulea.