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 Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:42 pm
Just a quick, fun little thing I saw swimming around the NaNo forums this (er, last) year.
Describe your story in a format of other media -- for instance, "My story is Firefly meets metal music meets Dead Rising meets Memoirs of a Geisha." (I pulled that one out of my a**, but now that I think of it that would be really ******** cool, whatever it amounted to.)
Pick things that describe setting, plot structure, character types, technology level, mood, whatever. Use as few or as many as you like, and be as serious or as joking as you like.
I would describe NaNo '09 (I was going to do R&N, but it requires too much thought for one o'clock in the morning) as Mirror's Edge meets Left 4 Dead meets NYC: 2123 meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Jak 2. With kung-fu and a tiny, tiny dose of Equilibrium.
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:22 pm
My story is Robin Hood meets The Glass Mountain meets Mario Brothers.
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:32 pm
Mario? Really?
I am intrigued.
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:04 pm
Mine is Doctor Who meets Criminal Minds Meets Lady GaGa meets Rayman Raving Rabbits meets Sonic meets Harry Potter Meets Twilight Meets Final Destination, Meets Kingdom Hearts.
Why?
Doctor Who - My characters jump from plot to plot. Literally. They change worlds, eras, everything.
Criminal Minds - They're rushing through all this to find a guy who is making all the plot-hopping happen.
Lady GaGa - Her outfits inspired some of the costumes for some of the worlds XD
Rabbits - My characters are attacked by psychotic rabid rabbits. I've never played the game, though.
Sonic - Anthropomorphic characters in some worlds.
Harry Potter - A boarding school in one of the main world.
Twilight - Cheesey Romance.
Final Destination - I kill off three quarters of the characters.
Kingdom Hearts - Again, the plot-hopping.
That's my NaNo.
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:08 pm
I seriously have no idea. At this point I'm probably not familiar enough with the world outside my cave to know what my story resembles anymore. @_@ I'll try, though.
Final Fantasy VII and IX meets For What It's Worth meets Howl's Moving Castle meets The Sacred Sacrament meets The Slipper and the Rose. With a ghost.
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Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:53 am
My story is The Lord of the Rings meets Knights of the Zodiac meets Avatar: The Last Airbender.
It sounds better than I expected.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:01 am
Since we're doing explanations too, here I go.
Robin Hood A contest is put on by royalty to achieve an important plot point, and there's a highly visible female lead attending.
The Glass Mountain The characters are attempting to "win" the princess by overcoming spectacularly nifty obstacles. (And as is also common in fairy tales, there are three major challenges.)
Super Mario Brothers The eebil person kidnaps the princess! And two guys (not really brothers, but they're sorta brotherly to each other) have to go rescue her. Yes, no castle of doom or mooks, but it was the closest analogy I could think of at the moment.
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:39 am
My story (one of the two I'm currently working on) is Romeo & Juliet meets Brokeback Mountain meets The Fugees meets sadistic author. blaugh
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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 2:56 pm
Lesee...
Winter's Requiem would be: the ungodly love-child of Final Fantasy (yes, all of them) and Metal Gear Solid 2-4, set in Appaloosa meets Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell as seen through the lens of Foucault's Pendulum and Revolutionary Girl Utena.
Final Fantasy for sheer scale, possibly-Aesopable fantasy plot-motivation, and absurd obsession with visual design.
MGS for deconstruction, WTF, character development, and grittiness.
Appaloosa for the whole New Western vibe, and very, very much the clothes, and probably the character-drivenness as well. (if you're willing to accept that the real plot arc is the relationships of the lead trio rather than some crazy princess)
Strange and Norrell for the fantasy, the super bitchy elf-fairy-things, and possibly some aspects of the magic.
Foucault's Pendulum for the deconstruction, again, but also the irreverence, the whimsy, and the gigantic tangential plotlines that may or may not come together as a whole.
Utena for the melodrama, the critique of gender, and the unapologetic WTF lurking around every corner.
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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:16 pm
Kita-Ysabell Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell I love that book so much, but am obliged to gripe about it undercutting my own ideas no less than three times.
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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:27 pm
Golden Sun plus Discworld plus ADHD yaoi fangirl writer plus so bad it's good crossover fanfic plus Legend of Zelda plus Lucky Star eventually plus writer's breakdown plus Australia x10 equals Dark Polaris.
I swear to god it's better than it sounds. sweatdrop Those were really the only ingredients I can think of at one in the morning.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha plus shounen anime plus Lucky Star plus Geneforge plus aforementioned writer's little breakdown plus Mega Man equals Dark Polaris: Ragnarok.
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Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:12 am
That's a win right there. 3nodding I wish they would make new installments... favorite game ever. heart
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Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:37 am
irian-andaluv That's a win right there. 3nodding I wish they would make new installments... favorite game ever. heart Than you're in luck, because they'll probably release GSDS within the next year![/dramatic voice] Yeah, it's been known since last E3, where they had a short demo and some summon animations. ...And in reterospect Fire Emblem might have been a better choice than Golden Sun. Maybe I should have used both.
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Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:59 pm
VenusRain irian-andaluv That's a win right there. 3nodding I wish they would make new installments... favorite game ever. heart Than you're in luck, because they'll probably release GSDS within the next year![/dramatic voice] Yeah, it's been known since last E3, where they had a short demo and some summon animations. ...And in reterospect Fire Emblem might have been a better choice than Golden Sun. Maybe I should have used both. *gasp* You just made my day! I'm so excited! I looked it up on the web, and it looks like a visually upgraded version of the same game. I was hoping for a new storyline, but I'll probably still buy it for the awesome new graphics. I'm hoping they at least add some new sidequests, though--those are always fun. I hope we don't have to wait forever for The Lost Age--I actually prefer that game to the first.
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:36 am
Now that I've gotten this topic completely off track... sweatdrop
What would my story be a cross of? Um... maybe Firefly (even though my steampunk isn't the airship variety), Lord of the Rings (for the way I'm trying to create a new culture from different parts of an existing culture), Cellist of Sarajevo (because Mirabel didn't have any personal conflict until I met Arrow), Latin American culture in general (which I borrow from), and maybe a little Harry Potter (if only for the fact that there's magic).
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