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Hasn’t this ship sailed? Everyone seems to have quietened right down about crypto and none of them are driving Ferrari’s yet.Doesn't that make now the best time to buy then?
I plan to submit a two-room "game" tentatively titled Roger in Planet of the Apes.Awww, what a combination
which above certain levels causes autism and psychiatric disordersPsychiatric disorders, maybe. Heck, probably. I don't know much about that part, but it sounds plausible.
Ah, now THAT sounds reasonable.Quotewhich above certain levelsIs undoubtedly critical though. We certainly don't need another wave of 'vaccines cause autism' scares to bring back yet more deaths by preventable diseases.
I'd be good to meet during my vacation in July, but we would need something drivable from Ottawa, Canada.Were you thinking Canada/US? Europe somewhere? I never attended a Mittens, but always wanted to give it a go!
'Grown up' Mittens is likely to be Australia this year. This thread is about a more family friendly spin off.
I now have an embarrassing admission and public apology. My entry was Bedroom Vigilante. It wasn’t until I saw cat’s comment that I realized I had essentially ripped off Snarky’s idea from the previous round. It’s made even worse by the fact that I even voted for Snarky’s pitch last time and thought it was brilliant. But had completely forgotten all about it by the time I came to write my pitch for this month. So sorry, Snarky.
In fact, Bedroom Vigilante wasn’t initially supposed to be a Rear Window ‘em up at all. When I first started thinking about it I was thinking of the book “Sorry, Wrong Number” which I read last month. It’s about an invalid woman on her own in an apartment who, due to some crossed wires, learns of a plot to murder a woman (her). The whole book (film, play etc) is set in one room and the woman makes a lot of phone calls in order to eventually find out the truth. It was from there that I thought I could combine it with Rear Window and have the protagonist solve a series of crimes with the telephone. So Snarky’s pitch may have been in the back of my mind somewhere but I wasn’t consciously thinking of that when it came to my pitch.
In answer to your questions, Snarky, I didn’t actually intend for the character to be unlikeable. I actually envisioned him as just a downtrodden guy who’s just had enough of being too scared to leave his room and decides to do his bit to make the streets a little safer.
As far as examples go, I imagined there would be multiple solutions to every puzzle but you’d also be looking at routines. So, for example, you would use the phone to send a pizza delivery to inturrupt a crime or call a public phone box to warn a passer by of a mugger waiting just around the corner. That kind of thing but preferably with lots of little side-stories and mini-character arcs.
