The Latest - State of the project

[Undisputed]

It's Project Hyperion.
http://offtopicproductions.com/otpwp/projects/

Will it be a more "serious" game? (no offense)

[justanotherfan]

Oh yeah. It's all about Project Hyperion, and how his life got flip turned into a lack of relative spacial directions. Mr. Hyperion is a cadet on the Bigship Alpha, sent on a mission by the Earth Government in search of Carbon after the Earth ran out. Thanks to a new technology exploiting the zero point field, empty space can be converted into oxygen, allowing the Bigship to be powered by the still-abundant coal, but it causes the ship exterior to rust as in the screenshot. When Cadet Hyperion is kidnapped, it's your job to wonder why.

[BoggyP]

in search of Carbon after the Earth ran out.

sif run out of carbon

[justanotherfan]

It'll happen, and Earth's civilizations will go to great lengths to find more carbon, like burning off some of the tremendous reserves of coal to find some carbon in space. If you had no carbon, you'd disappear too, just like young space cadet Project Hyperion.

I don't want to give away the ending, but the coal is people!

[Jonas]

in search of Carbon after the Earth ran out [...] still-abundant coal

Um... does not compute

You do realise what coal is composed of, right?

[justanotherfan]

You do realise what coal is composed of, right?

People!

And yeah. Coal is carbon, Earth's life is carbon based, and zero-point energy would be used to create carbon as much as oxygen. It's a hole in the Project Hyperion plot you really should fix.

[ghostdog]

You do realise what coal is composed of, right?

People!

OMG ! Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them! We've gotta stop them somehow!

[BoggyP]

OMG ! Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them! We've gotta stop them somehow!

And that must be the plot of project Hyperion.

[Jonas]

And that must be the plot of project Hyperion.

No actually it must be the plot of Soylent Green.

[chris the cynic]

It's Chocolate! It's People! It's both!

[BoggyP]

And that must be the plot of project Hyperion.

No actually it must be the plot of Soylent Green.

I know two of my friends told me about it. But that would make a good game maybe that's the plot. They send ships full of people to search for carbon but it's a trap to get those humans alone and harvest them for pure carbon

[justanotherfan]

They send ships full of people to search for carbon but it's a trap to get those humans alone and harvest them for pure carbon

Hmm, I gave away the ending. It's mostly an open secret that the humans are harvested; all you have to do is follow the corpse truck to the carbon factory. If you haven't seen the movie this won't make sense.

Project Hyperion is basically Soylent Green, but virtualized in a dynamic scalable online video feed. When you enter the game, type into the console "iwastrestkon" and you gain +20 dancing skill, but if you misspell it you catch fire.

[BoggyP]

They send ships full of people to search for carbon but it's a trap to get those humans alone and harvest them for pure carbon

Hmm, I gave away the ending. It's mostly an open secret that the humans are harvested; all you have to do is follow the corpse truck to the carbon factory. If you haven't seen the movie this won't make sense.

Project Hyperion is basically Soylent Green, but virtualized in a dynamic scalable online video feed. When you enter the game, type into the console "iwastrestkon" and you gain +20 dancing skill, but if you misspell it you catch fire.

I like the idea of programing every possible letter combination other than "iwastrestkon" making you be set on fire though. I support that.

[Jaedar]

I like the idea of programing every possible letter combination other than "iwastrestkon" making you be set on fire though. I support that.

if (input==iwastrestkon)
player.adddancing(20)
else
player.setonfire()

[justanotherfan]

(damn, took too long, Jaedar got there first)
Set input => X
If x != "iwastrestkon"
Then set playercharacter = onprettyfire

That's all the Hyperion console is there for. True fans will misspell it anyway to see the new "User Carbonification" fire effect. It's truly beautiful graphically, but hardware-intensive so don't do it if you're overclocking, unless you want to help with the carbon shortage or can summon fireextinguisher in real life.

I should probably add a disclaimer after all of this. As an unacknowledged official representative of Off Topic Productions, I make sweeping statements that are all true and act as promises of OTP regarding the finished product. The release date is set for a tomorrow. The large space boat in the Hyperion artwork is an unsinkable ship with a two year warranty (expressed and implied).

It's really more like Starlight Express than Soylent Green, since the coal powered starships are obsoleting electrics since voltage provides little thrust in space, except the coal is people so you really want the clunky old electric motor to get the girl in the end.