Alright. I just finished what I think is the final round of revisions on the #JupitersGhost #JG gameboy color game.
I'm going to let it ruminate for a day or three and then upload it to itch and put the cartridges up for sale.
Hooray.
I'm also considering doing a livestreamed actual play RPG set in the Jupiter's Ghost universe.
This sounds like a good idea, right?
(I mean, a horrible idea, but...)
As I'm prepping for this, which I think is going to happen, I've been working on some of the other #JupitersGhost related things that need to get done.
I have my #JG uniform finished, and I have a couple of basic Away Mission shorts I want to shoot.
I need to get my biolog prop modeled up so I can print one out. A lightly painted PLA print should be sufficient as a screen held, non-hero prop.
But, even before that, I could probably get a short done if I could find a good field to shoot in.
Some of those guidelines are very reasonable!
Some of them are explicitly disallowing things that would otherwise be legal, which makes me angry.
For example:
- You can't register the copyright of the things you've produced, because you produced them in service of Star Trek? Bullshit, that I hate.
- You can't sell merch for your fan production, even if you don't use any Paramount owned shit in it? Bullshit that I hate.
- No physical media? Fuck that!
- You can't pay anyone involved? That's fucking bullshit!
- Anyone who has ever been in a Star Trek thing can't participate. Why? (Specifically to exclude Tim Russ and George Takei, presumably, but also perhaps to exclude James Cawley and others who were involved in existing fan productions who had *also* cameoed in various actual Star Trek productions.)
And then, of course, no more than 15 minutes per thing, and no more than two things per group. No sequels, no series, no seasons, nothing of proper episode length.
Anyway, all of that is to say: The fact that Paramount controls what can and can't be #starTrek is why we need #communityMedia
and it's why I started working on #JupitersGhost
No one can tell you what to do with the #SolarFederation, not even me!
Well, that's not entirely true. I can tell you one thing: whatever you do with the #JG universe you have to give back to the JG universe ( #CCBYSA)
But, if you find yourself looking for a place to tell space stories, and you want to settle in to an existing universe rather than writing your own, take a look at https://intergalactic.computer/social
@ajroach42 I don't KNOW, but I'd imagine at 8k followers you could get a lot of help with that. Filtering it through you or whoever would still take work, of course. But that probably also depends on the end goal. (For bonus points, how well do solar panels like on an old calculator work?)
@Jeffool you'd think! But getting folks excited about contributing to a project is tricky! (Speaking from my years of experience trying to get #JG off the ground.)
When I say "build a world" though I mostly mean producing and releasing media associated with the thing that the 'dex is for. I have *So Much* lore and backstory for some of the ongoing media and game and toy things I'm working on, but getting that out as a comic or a game or a show has to happen before the Dex makes sense.
Much of my work as of late has been about exploration, photography, cataloging. This is true of the recently released Expedition Sasquatch game and especially of the soon to be released Jupiter's Ghost game.
I want to start adding some build a new community elements to that, and I think that something like the old POX handhelds (coupled with modern wireless protocols) could be a really interesting way to do this.
Think about it like Streetpass, but based entirely around a weird indie media franchise and populated only by weirdos who buy indie art toys or built one themselves.
(Instead of a V-Pet it's actually a #JG biolog. You carry it around with you and it picks up facts from your virtual environment, and shows you pictures of local alien plants and animals?)