I figured out too late the shape of the #skyPirates video game.

[ajroach42@retro.social]

I figured out too late the shape of the #skyPirates video game.

It's a reverse Carmen Sandiego. It's 1919 (the distant future). You're on the run from international detectives as you fly around in a zeppelin with your polycule bombing government buildings, stealing from billionaires, and generally being the best kind of problem.

But the game itself is packaged up like a geography and history education game. It's just a series of quiz questions about where stuff is, and also the history of labor action around the planet.

But it's also sky pirates!

I think I could do the whole thing with twine, and I could probably pull it off in 2 - 3 uninterrupted weeks, but I won't have that in the next month (and the toy show is less than a month away.)

[ajroach42@retro.social]

If you're reading this and you have any interest in doing a small educational game about a crew of queer sky pirates with the energy of Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego (in twine or renPy) in the next 25 days in exchange for my gratitude, credit on the game, and a few hundred dollars, let me know!

[scrottie@anarchism.space]

@ajroach42 This probably doesn't help much, but @foone was hacking on one of the Carmen Sandiego games recently and mentioned something about not needing to do a full reverse engineer because there's already a game editor for it out there. I can't find it (search got nerfed) but if you wanted a retro game that runs in emulation, kick her a few $$ and ask. Also a great person to follow if you aren't already

[foone@digipres.club]

@scrottie @ajroach42 I was talking about what i want to build, not what exists yet. Sorry!