Alan Moore videogame?

Keef Monkey · 06 May, 2011, 07:47:45 PM

Thought this was interesting development, looks like while he's unhappy with adapting his comics to other mediums he might well be working on something cross-media with a game component. Curious.

http://uk.kotaku.com/5799300/comic-legend-alan-moore-teases-video-game-project

bluemeanie · 06 May, 2011, 08:31:14 PM

It won't be as good as the watchmen games

Greg M. · 06 May, 2011, 08:38:23 PM

Aw, I was hoping it was going to be an 'Alan Moore Simulator', like the kind of thing Codemasters used to put for £1.99 in the 80s.

Emp · 07 May, 2011, 11:38:03 PM

A simulator eh? Like...

Create comic/story
Sell rights to Hollywood
Cash cheque
Bitch/moan
Repeat

JOE SOAP · 07 May, 2011, 11:42:47 PM

He may be a grumpy aul' fuck but he did give the 'ollywood whore money to his mates.

Emp · 07 May, 2011, 11:44:47 PM

Well....i suppose theres that...

lborl · 08 May, 2011, 12:00:45 AM

Quote from: Keef Monkey on 06 May, 2011, 07:47:45 PM
Thought this was interesting development, looks like while he's unhappy with adapting his comics to other mediums he might well be working on something cross-media with a game component. Curious.

http://uk.kotaku.com/5799300/comic-legend-alan-moore-teases-video-game-project

I don't see what's curious about it really. The lovely Alan Moore's already done gag cartoons, serialized comics, graphic novels, prose novels, edited a magazine, performed music experimental and novelty, made a TV documentary and countless appearances on radio shows etc. Why wouldn't he work on a videogame as well? Douglas Adams worked on three or four.

This reminds me actually; I'm sure last year I read he was planning a project with Doseone...

TordelBack · 08 May, 2011, 07:53:08 AM

Quote from: lborl on 08 May, 2011, 12:00:45 AMDouglas Adams worked on three or four.

Adams was a major computer buff, made a documentary on hypertext right back at the dawn of the Web (IIRC), and his H2G2 project (to which I was an ethusiastic contributor) was at least a stout branch on the Wikipedia evolutionary bush. Moore famously doesn't (or at least didn't) own a computer. But true, he's a multi-media powerhouse, so why not? I'd love to see him do some of his 'proper porn' stuff as a computer game - that's something that really hasn't been done (successfully).

JOE SOAP · 08 May, 2011, 09:25:24 AM

Quote from: TordelBack on 08 May, 2011, 07:53:08 AM
I'd love to see him do some of his 'proper porn' stuff as a computer game - that's something that really hasn't been done (successfully).

What about Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards?

As to Moore owning a computer, from 2003 there's a pic of him posed beside his own on the back cover of...

Strictly wordprocessing I'm sure...

TordelBack · 08 May, 2011, 09:56:44 AM

Dagnabbit, I was going to mention Leisure Suit Larry! Good catch on the computer picture - I suppose I'm thinking of the Moore/Sim fax exchanges at the back of Cerebus, where both men have a 'hell, no' attitude to computers, but when I think about it it was actually the internet that Moore objected too - I think he admitted elsewhere to treating his computer as a 'glorified typewriter', which was something I tried to do for several years until you bastards* sucked me back in.

*And the naked ladies. And the illegal Clone Wars downloads.

Keef Monkey · 08 May, 2011, 12:59:05 PM

Quote from: lborl on 08 May, 2011, 12:00:45 AM
Quote from: Keef Monkey on 06 May, 2011, 07:47:45 PM
Thought this was interesting development, looks like while he's unhappy with adapting his comics to other mediums he might well be working on something cross-media with a game component. Curious.

http://uk.kotaku.com/5799300/comic-legend-alan-moore-teases-video-game-project

I don't see what's curious about it really. The lovely Alan Moore's already done gag cartoons, serialized comics, graphic novels, prose novels, edited a magazine, performed music experimental and novelty, made a TV documentary and countless appearances on radio shows etc. Why wouldn't he work on a videogame as well? Douglas Adams worked on three or four.

Aye, when I say curious I just mean I'm very curious to see what a videogame with his involvement will be like. Should at the very least be an interesting and unique product that comes out.

Adrian Bamforth · 08 May, 2011, 01:11:38 PM

I've put him down as only doing "underground" stuff no, as that seems to be the only place he feels comfortable. Whatever it is sounds interesting, some form of adventure game would be great, though I can't imagine it being a major commercial project.

I, Cosh · 08 May, 2011, 01:39:23 PM

An iPhone game. Angry Magus.

TordelBack · 08 May, 2011, 02:10:33 PM

While I doubt it's on the cards (geddit?), an RPG version of Promethea would be something to behold - juggling the superhero antics of Stacia and the Five Swell Guys with the different aspects of the past incarnations, and Sophie's progression through the Sephiroth, all with JH Williams III visuals swirling aorund you. And a Weeping Gorilla mini-game, naturally.

Jim_Campbell · 08 May, 2011, 02:56:14 PM

Quote from: JOE SOAP on 08 May, 2011, 09:25:24 AM
Strictly wordprocessing I'm sure...

Pretty much, as I understand it. In the wake of Watchmen, I remember Moore doing an interview in which he discussed the "enormous" royalty cheques from DC and said that he "went out and bought a car and a computer and joined the 20th century."

What he doesn't have is an internet connection or an e-mail address; something I try to remind people of when some remark of Alan's reverberates around the internet causing outrage and gnashing of teeth amongst the serried ranks of geekdom.

Cheers

Jim