{"id":62,"date":"2013-02-03T01:15:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T01:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outofthedarkness.info\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2013-02-03T01:31:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T01:31:46","slug":"first-encounters-working-with-frontiers-indigenous-life-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outofthedarkness.info\/blog\/first-encounters-working-with-frontiers-indigenous-life-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"First Encounters: Working with Frontier’s Indigenous Life Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Frontier’s Indigenous Life Forms (FILFs) about to be beamed to their cafeteria. Another example of game developers working too hard and not eating properly. Their mums will have given them each a thick ear by Monday. They’re not wearing their vests either.<\/p><\/div>\n

Over the last couple of weeks there has been a flurry of emails winging their way through the ether (sorry, that’s steampunk, wrong genre) discussing Out of the Darkness<\/em> and how it fits into the Elite: Dangerous<\/em> universe. One unforeseen, and very positive, outcome was that the lovely Frontier indigenous life forms (FILFs) have asked me to contribute some ideas for the game universe by compiling one of the E: D<\/em> writer’s guides. Developers and writers will use the guides when creating content for the game and the fiction that goes with it. Of course, I jumped at the chance!<\/p>\n

Being given the opportunity to work with these talented FILFs is a privilege, but I imagine you are sitting there thinking, W<\/em>hy should I care?\u00a0<\/em>Well, it was the ideas for the backstory and setting for the book that they liked which means I seem to be on the right track, and so you get a book you will, hopefully, enjoy. The guides also mean that the\u00a0Elite<\/em> game universe and its fiction will form a cohesive, well thought out whole.<\/p>\n

With such a large community of developers and writers contributing, Elite: Dangerous<\/em> should be an awesome game: an epic space action\/adventure with a setting and backstory as deep as that of any novel, film, or roleplaying game.<\/p>\n

Will doing the writer’s guide slow the writing of the book? Possibly, but not significantly. Also the time spent fleshing out the background to the story by doing the guide will result in a better book. We writers – puffed up with our own self-importance – like to call it research<\/em>. Whether you call it that, or messing about thinking up cool stuff while seasoning it with a little pinch of science<\/em>, it will be time well spent.<\/p>\n

Oh, I didn’t mention what the guide was about, and so what’s in the story, did I? Thargoids<\/em>. <\/p>\n

I know that’s not much to go on, but I can tell you Frontier have some very cool plans ahead that they made me promise to keep schtum about for the time being. As I’m not entirely sure about the limits of their technology at The Towers, I will hold my peace rather than end up in pieces.<\/p>\n

Image courtesy of Victor Habbick at\u00a0FreeDigitalPhotos.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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