(First, a public notice: I’ll be signing at Packrat Comics in Hilliard, Ohio tomorrow, Saturday May 1st for Free Comic Book Day! Other cool people will be there, most notably… Nicholas Brendon. You know… Xander? I’ll be there from 10-2ish, but you don’t care about that anymore do you? Yeah, I’d be a lot less excited to meet me, too, after that news. Well, if you come out to meet him, stop by to say ‘hey’ to me.)
(Back to business:) If anyone is going to come through for The Dreamer in a bind, it’s Alan Evans. He’s always helping flat pages that need colored at a moments notice, so when I needed a guest strip for today, I knew who to turn to for help. If you don’t read his webcomic Rival Angels yet, you should… if not because it’s a great story (which it is!) do it as a way of thanking the man for all his hard Dreamer-related work. You guys don’t even know HOW many updates he’s saved. Seriously.
When I asked folks to do guests strips during my time off, I gave them free reign. Alan’s entry is nothing if not creative! Enjoy!
The Dreamer: The Game
If you checked out the Dreamer
Fan Flow, you’ll know that the topic of Dreamer movie casting has had some fun discussion of those casting choices. I think another worthwhile Dreamer discussion would be a Dreamer video game!
Over the years, there have been some attempts at American Revolutionary video games but they were mostly hex-based games and almost always lame. Hardly Dreamer-esque.
If we could co-opt the Call of Duty game engine, you’d immediately have access to a wide open multi-player platform. Wouldn’t it be great to meet a bunch of other Dreamer fans and work together?
Weapons from that era would be awesome. A single shot longrifle would keep things entertaining. Shoot, reload, repeat. Emphasis on the reload because you only have one shot. Make it count!!
And if you pick Brown Bess Musket, you better be playing with a friend—alone you only have a 50% chance of hitting your target, but in a line? Invincible! An excellent upgrade would be getting a bayonet!
And a secret weapon upgrade would be the spontoon!!
Throw in some decision based scenarios akin to ‘choose your own adventure,’ to progress the story in different ways. Rise through the ranks while trying to save your sweetheart at the same time!
Those are just a few ideas on one type of Dreamer game. There’s literally hundreds of different ways of doing it, so what would you like to see in a Dreamer game?
And VOTE this week to see guest art by Dreamer Colorist JULIE WRIGHT! She did a Nathan Hale sketch card for me at SPACE this past weekend!
OH MY GOD THAT GAME LOOKS AMAZING.
Lora, you must learn game development and MAKE IT. I would buy it. I would TOTALLY BUY IT.
And Albone = <3. Much love to him for the guest strip.
This is absolutely outstanding. It must be made.
I…want….sketch card….prettyful…
I need more Nathan-ness, what can I say? lol
And I don’t even play computer games or video games but I’d totally go for a Dreamer game. :D SPONTOON ALL THE WAY!!!
I… would buy. Without any hesitation. O__O;; Now I seriously want this to happen!
So multiple characters = multiple possible storylines? What if you want to play as Yvette or Liz, or Ben or John? See the world through the eyes of Bea’s friends and family as they try to cope with not knowing what the heck’s going on with her? Find a way to throw some action in there, though… Unless those character choices would have a more psychological route? Or maybe the “modern day” characters would be special yay-you-beat-the-game unlockables!
Oh, multiple save “boxes” or whatever, for multiple character games going at a time!!!
I’m… getting way too much into this, aren’t I? Can’t help it, don’t care.
Oh, and C. My response would be C. When in doubt, C.
Hmmm. I feel vaguely lame, I can’t find the guest strip.
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Please help. Will beg for Dreamer.
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I keep laughing at the “Captain Stupidhead.” Made my day.
Yeah, I’m in the same boat as Neph. I uh, can’t seem to find the guest strip ;__;
I would just play Hamilton each time, because his character would be unbelievably broken. XD
OMG! I want that game!!!!!!!!!!!! When i saw it I almost passes out mwahaha. Such a great idea I <3 it.
Hahahahahaha Captain Stupidhead. I would’ve gone for that if there was a game. Just to see what happens. XDDD
re: the guest strip, everyone, this *is* your guest strip! And vote to see Julie’s sketch card! :)
@Neph: I think John should be the secret character. ;) Other characters to unlock: George Washington and General Howe!!
@Evangeline: You’d have to play with a cannon for Hamilton! You’d obliterate everyone, but you’d need about five players working together to fire it. ;)
There’s a decent HL2 mod for AWI. It’s called Battlegrounds:http://www.moddb.com/mods/battle-grounds-2
Oh my god…
If The Dreamer is being made into a game, I’D BUY IT!!!
Bea, “Get your rifle, give me the spontoon.”
Nathan: A. Gives the spontoon
B. “I’m not going to give you my spontoon!”
C. Takes the rifle, but keeps the spontoon
Do want .<3 So badass.
Speaking of games, people, I'm searching for a War of Independence RPG, but I can't find one. Would you here be interested in making a forum RP? With historical characters (Dreamer boys too, or course), and OCs as well as characters from books/movies about this era? I'd totally make one and can do the forum look pretty, but I'd need help with the historical part since I'm not American.
Anyone interested, please drop me a mail. We could make one.
mairetar@gmail.com
OMG *want*! That’s so awesome!! And I could actually see my hhusband playing a game like that (come to think of it, he’s got a WW2 game kind of like that actually). I’d buy it!
Oh, thank you, Lora. XD In that case, I’m satisfied with the guest strip. It’s so much fun. :D Possibilities!
“Shantel mouths off to Beatrice (again). How should Bea respond?”
A. Ignore. It’s not worth a confrontation.
B. ‘Accidentally’ spill coffee on her cheerleader uniform.
C. “Since you’re DYING to know, Shantel… He tastes like SPEARMINT.”
lol! There are SOO many possibilities for the character response moments, lol!!!
OMG I just squeed. At work. This so has to happen! What an awesome game this would be! Hmmm…my brother designs games, maybe I’ll pass it on to him…. ; )
I would SO get this. Without a doubt. One of the missions could be to save Nathan from being hanged!!
I’m a HUGE Call of Duty player, and I’ve constantly been telling my fiance about how AWESOME it would be if the next game was a Revolutionary-themed one. He said the one shot-reload wouldn’t really work, but I dunno… I’d buy it.
Oh my gosh, Call of Duty gameplay with BioWare-esque storytelling?? Sounds pretty awesome… XD
Also, that sketchcard…. So. Epic. D:
I would absolutely download this thing. When’s it going live? :-P
Listen, you have no idea how perilously close I came to wetting my pants with laughter when I saw that “Better luck next time, Yank” Game Over thing.
Geeze. :-DDDD It gets funnier the longer I think about it, even.
I would sooooo play a call of Duty style Revolutionary War game.
As for the Brown Bess…I finally have the real thing (from Loyalist Arms in Canada), but I still cannot load nearly as quickly as anybody (skilled) from the time period would be able to.
*sigh*
I would buy The Dreamer game–it looks amazing and so much fun!
@ Neph and others: I had the same problem, but the Dreamer game screenshots IS the guest strip. I was looking for an actual comic strip too. :D
That game would be awesome!
I Like your website and read it often. If there was ever a Dreamer game,Id buy it :)