The American Revolution as Epic Narrative & a Video Game!

Can anyone think of reasons why a major publisher would be opposed to such games?

The American Revolution is a classic case of freedom--rebel forces uniting around freedom's classical ideals and overthrowing the tyrant King George and his well-trained army of redcoats. The same theme played itself out in Star Wars, with the rebels facing off against the Empire's superior, well-armored storm troopers. And the theme also played itself out in The Matrix and The Lord of The Rings. Now also, all of these examples are classical cases of the epic hero's journey, whence the protagonists unite around common ideals and together face a much larger army for the sake of liberty and freedom.

Benjamin Franklin stated, "we must all hang together, or we will most certainly hang apart," and this theme also played itself out in The Matrix where Morpheus risks his life for Neo who risks his life for Trinity who risks her life for Neo who risks his life for Morpheus.

At any rate, why not open a game version of the American Revolution with the player walking the streets, seeking out speeches exalting classical, epic, exalted ideals? This could easily be done with current game engines! To the degree they are successful in rounding up fellow countrymen and patriots, they will succeed in forming an entire army, as those that they round up in the beginning will be sent forth to round up the army, recruiting freedom-fighters with their exalted words!

There exists a plethora of exalted quotes in the public domain from the likes of Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, Locke, Smith, Cicero, Sydney, Plato, and Aristotle--why not exalt a game with such quotes; and weave them into the AI so that the more classical souls one recruits, the more successful their campaign. We can still have EA's Dante's Inferno and its giant vaginas and boobies and "visceral" baby-killing for the fanboys, but now and then, when one wants to man up and play a game with banned, soulful, revolutionary ideals; one can exalt The American Revolution as Epic Narrative & a Video Game!

The same such Gold 45 Revolver / Ideas Have Consequences / Moral Premise technologies could be applied to games based on Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm as well as The Matrix and Lord of The Rings, and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

I imagine we will see such games soon, as why not?

Look at the visceral, sometimes confused, sometimes bitter and vengeful reactions!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread. ... ver%20read

With absolutely no marketing budget nor game-development budget, the novel, revolutionary paradigm-shift in videogames was launched with "the patent read around the world!"

WTF недели: "exalted video games and virtual realities"
http://ded-maxim.livejournal.com/337627.html


naturally, the gold 45 revolver a huge hit in both denmark and afghanistan!

http://paulpajo.com/2009/07/16/system-a ... -mcgucken/

"System and method for creating exalted video games and virtual realities … by Elliot McGucken
Are you ready to patent your own game system and method? Here’s a sample of Elliot McGucken’s patent application:

“… 6. The method in claim 1 where said ideas spread like viruses, by being spoken, written, or disseminated in some other manner, transforming characters who come in contact with said ideas into vampires, zombies, or other forms of monsters, and where said vampires, zombies, and monsters may be saved or converted back to normal by coming in contact with ideas that oppose the ideas that made them vampires, zombies, and other forms of monsters…”

is this Danish? Norwegian?

http://www.playright.dk/forumemne.php?i ... 0&start=40

Uwe strikes back, og han har spist Jack Thompson og sammen er de reinkarneret i form af Dr. Elliot McGucken!

and is it good to have your name alongside uwe bowls’ and jack thompson’s in this language?

“Uwe strikes back, og han har spist Jack Thompson og sammen er de reinkarneret i form af Dr. Elliot McGucken!

Det er længe siden jeg har læst noget så win i spilsammenhæng. Dr. E, som kan kalder sig, har søgt om det bedste spilpatent. Han vil have patent på… moralske valg i spil! Åh nej, nu må BioWare og dusinvis af andre RPG-udviklere jo begynde at lave sportsspil!”

Ok, den er lidt længere, men han blander tilsyneladende egne og allerede eksisterende idéer i sin patentansøgning.

Noget af patentet kan ses her i diagramform, der er også link til selve patentet:

Tråd hvor cowboyen selv deltager:

Han er enten troll eller Rainman. Men han eksisterer tilsyneladende, eller er en copycat:

"Npc1 encounters npc2 vampire who qoutes Lenin"

EDIT: Årsagen til jeg kaldte ham cowboy skyldes, at han advokerer for et våben, han kalder Gold 45 Revolver, som skyder med lyn eller noget i den stil

And then a rudimentary (very) version of the Gold 45 Revolver/Ideas Have Consequences/Moral Premise game was exalted at the Euro Gamer Expo! http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=501 http://expo.eurogamer.net/whats-on.php

At any rate, games based on exalted ideals which let the player interact about classical ideals via dialogue trees and then render said ideals real via physical action and rugged battle will soon be all the rage all over the world. Rendering ideals real also happens to be the heart and soul of epic poetry such as Homer's Odyssey, as Aristotle noted. Wish that EA's brass would have read some Aristotle! It would have made them millions, if not billions--rather than dumbing down Dante's Inferno, as is the fashion, they could have exalted it!

Can anyone think of reasons why a major publisher would be opposed to such exalted games wherein players talk about classical ideals, form fellowships based on the classical ideals, and then together fight to render them real and witness the exalted consequences?

Like what are they waiting for?

The Gold 45 Revolver works on soooo many levels!


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