Take on the role of an operative in the Hex Gen network, a decentralized movement of hacktivists resisting the economic pillaging conducted by the unholy alliances of Big Tech, Big Military, and Big Finance. Think "The Windup Girl" meets "Neuromancer". Features: -Facial, vocal biometric capture devices -"Nohface" electronic face projector for thwarting surveillance/drones which cover almost every inch of city -Wireless internet -Darknets - all web activity is fully surveilled, you need stealth not only in meatspace but in cyberspace -More types of hacking - cryptography, DDoS, spoofing -Hunger: experience real economic destitution as you slowly die of starvation and are forced to beg, steal, or even kill for a piece of bread. -DIY: Upgrade your hemp trenchcoat with solar trim, syphon electricity from the private power grid, take apart old phones and radios to hack together an EMP gun, set up a hydroponic garden in your squatted flat so you don't have to kill for every meal.
A trenchcoat modified with patched-on solar panels. The "Skorched Urth" solar coat. The coat is an installable "augmentation" which can be uninstalled, but with a cost (panels may be destroyed, requires other skills).
I can tell that you put a ton of work into making the solar panels look just right, and individually, they do look good, but, that said, to me it doesn't work as a whole. It looks like a badly tailored plaid coat.
My advice is this: make the white edges of each panel much thinner (particularly the round regions, which right now look like giant buttons one would find on furniture), and make these white regions much darker. To reduce the contrast of each panel's interior details and exterior edges, I'd also make it look like a translucent black "skin" covered the whole thing (I'd avoid making it look too shiny). This should dramatically reduce the "plaid coat" look.
I don't want to sound harsh. It's a NEAT idea that needs some more development.
Good luck to you on this labor of love.
Thanks, yeah I see what you mean. I knew something wasn't quite right there but it makes more sense thinking of it in terms of plaid.
I'm REALLY impressed by what I've been seeing here.
The video of all of the dialogue struck me as being exceptionally thought provoking.
I appreciated your somewhat subtle references to Steve Jobs' psychopathic lust for having his i-gadgets made in dungeon factories, and how corporations are patenting everything - even stuff they didn't create. The general sense of apathy was well done, something that's hard to pull off without it seeming too heavy handed.
Nice work.
Hey, thanks! It's great to hear others are into what I'm trying to do here.
Yeah, I do like thought provoking or at least intriguing sci-fi and speculative-fi. One of my favorite things about the DX and Fallout series that are major inspirations. I'm glad the dialog didn't come off too hokey as well, I did a lot of second guessing and re-recording while trying to hit an authentic sounding tone.
" It's great to hear others are into what I'm trying to do here."
The kinds of things that you're mentioning are virtually totally ignored as source material in 99.9% of all video games, and, tragically, the same can be said to be true for our mainstream multibillion dollar media. On one level, we shouldn't be surprised that mega-corporations aren't reporting what corporations are feverishly devoted to doing: taking over governments so that the laws that are being written are being meticulously engineered for massive corporate benefit, and with all of the negatives dumped on the ordinary "scum of the earth" people.
These are appalling times, as the assault on the institutions that supply a bare minimum of protection for the ordinary folk are being attacked from a thousand different directions, so that if an outright assault doesn't "do them in," then they'll at least bleed to death from the delivery of a thousand cuts.
What's terrifying to me is that the overwhelming majority of the populace is incapable of basic empathy for another human being whose living in obvious misery. Steve Jobs is literally worshiped by everyone, yet he oversaw the creation of factories that are so inhumane that his workers are trying to commit suicide by jumping off of the roofs of the buildings he owns. How can people NOT take the time to try and imagine how bad things must be there, as these poor workers are more willing to watch their own decent to the merciless concrete below than live another minute! Steve Jobs was a psychopath, plain and simple, and yet we worship this monster as a benevolent god.
I'll support anything that sheds any level of light on what's actually happening.
Again, the best of luck to you.