About a Pig

[robotnik2004]

Modesty shall not prevent me from noting that my game design General Mud, which I whinged for validation on discreetly mentioned back in November, won the coveted "High Ronnie" for the last round of Ron Edwards' eponymous game designing contest. Here is the link to Ron's very flattering feedback.

Until about three-quarters through, I figured it was merely a dialogue-based homage to Animal Farm, but it's not. Can the Soviet survive? Is the General's ascendancy a long-term curse to its downfall? Are bourgeois notions, in moderation, compatible with a secure economy? This should be taught and played in history classes.

I was especially pleased by that final line.

(I'm going to get even more immodest now and assert that there are actually some parallels between General Mud and neelk's terrific-looking Court of the Empress. But Neel being Neel and me being me, his design is elegant, cruel, and sexy, while mine is convoluted, twitchy, and mostly about a pig.)

Comments

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure. You're all over the game where the cruel and all-powerful Empress passes judgment on her fellow players (this exchange both cracked me up and took the words out of my mouth, btw). But make a game where a Stalinist pig does the same thing...

Just kidding. I know it's not everybody's scene. Thanks!

[peaseblossom.livejournal.com]

Well, look, if you're playing a boar, that's one thing, but playing a sow? I don't think anyone could pull that off and still feel intimidating.

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

I don't know about that... Pigs are BIG animals.

And of course, there is always Bricktop's rant in 'Snatch' to instill a healthy respect for pigs and for those who keep them. ;)

[papersource.livejournal.com]

Didn't you watch Deadwood?