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Mar. 11th, 2005 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfPeter Molyneux, the inventor of such wonderful and strange games like Black and White and Studio, was asked to create a game concept around the life of Emily Dickinson.
At first, he said, he'd thought he would mix Dickinson's poetry into a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas environment. But in the end, he was inspired to create a kind of combination of Tamagotchi and Microsoft's universally hated paperclip helper, Clippy.
Then came the idea to put the player in the role of Dickinson's therapist. The game, he said, would be stored on a USB flash drive.
"As you interact with her, you start with a cordial relationship," he said. "She (either) becomes romantically obsessed with you, or goes into a suicidal depression, and at the end, she can delete herself from the memory stick."
Along the way, Wright explained, Dickinson would reside in the player's computerized world, popping up from time to time with an e-mail, instant message, text message or desktop appearance. As an example, he showed the crowd a potential text message from Dickinson: "1t is b3tt3r t0 B th3 h4mm3r th4n th3 4nv1L" (geek writing for "it is better to be the hammer than the anvil").
If I were rich as well as eccentric, I would so throw money at Molyneux and beg him to make this game.
At first, he said, he'd thought he would mix Dickinson's poetry into a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas environment. But in the end, he was inspired to create a kind of combination of Tamagotchi and Microsoft's universally hated paperclip helper, Clippy.
Then came the idea to put the player in the role of Dickinson's therapist. The game, he said, would be stored on a USB flash drive.
"As you interact with her, you start with a cordial relationship," he said. "She (either) becomes romantically obsessed with you, or goes into a suicidal depression, and at the end, she can delete herself from the memory stick."
Along the way, Wright explained, Dickinson would reside in the player's computerized world, popping up from time to time with an e-mail, instant message, text message or desktop appearance. As an example, he showed the crowd a potential text message from Dickinson: "1t is b3tt3r t0 B th3 h4mm3r th4n th3 4nv1L" (geek writing for "it is better to be the hammer than the anvil").
If I were rich as well as eccentric, I would so throw money at Molyneux and beg him to make this game.
