Serenity Ghostship Project
POSTED BY: Dither
UPDATED: Monday, July 12, 2004 18:22
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OK, I've been kicking this idea around for awhile now and I realise it's probably impossible. But I'll post it up anyway, someone may get some inspiration of a new projct from it.
The idea is a 3-D model of Serenity that can be explored in first-person mode. You find it sitting derelict and deserted on some nameless moon. It's still intact but has definetly seen better days. It has more rust than paint. Still it's a beautiful ship and the cargo door is down so you decide to investigate. Upon entering you hear the voice of a girl saying, wispering "All aboard". You turn expecting to see someone but no one is there. As you explore the rest of the ship you catch other sounds, other voices: "It's just an object..." "I already picked out a name for her" "That ain't no Sheperd". The sound of people laughing emanates from the dining room. An explosion can be heard coming from the engine room. These sounds always disappear when you near the area of their origin.
Well you get the idea. A ship full of ghostly sounds. Some good, some not so much. The med bay was the place of a lot of pain. Both physical and emotional. It could have an almost overwelming, disorienting whirlwind of sounds. Add some of Mal's screaming from War Stories.
The effect I was thinking of would be less house of horrors and more like the ship has never forgotten the people that sailed her. That lived in her.
The sounds would be easy enough. They're already recorded. It's the 3-D program thingy (look at me, I'm all technical 
)that would take some expertise. Oh well, there it is.
"That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth."
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this sounds like it would be sooooooooooo freaking SHINY! i really hope somebody can figure out how to do this!
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MAL: This is my scrap of nowhere. You go on and find your own.
SAFFRON: You can't just leave me here, on this
lifeless piece of crap moon...
MAL: Sure I can.
SAFFRON: I'll die.
MAL: Well, as a courtesy, you might start
getting busy on that, cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
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Pitch it to Universal, word is they bought Serenity as a merchanising opportunity rather than a work of art. I guess we'll have to dream about it as a VR headset?
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Should be technically possible using the Quake III engine, I might dig up the system and see what I can do... *dissapears in search of old CDs*
check out my WIP firefly roleplay system at www.estador.co.uk/firefly
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Woa... good idea!
"The perversity of the 'Verse tends towards a maximum."
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A shiny (if not a bit creepifying) idea.
I am hoping (fingers crossed & everything) that the BDM is successful enough for Universal to invest in the creation of some sort of video game or the like and that one of the features would be a 1st person perspective tour of Serenity.
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
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Originally posted by PurpleBelly:
Pitch it to Universal, word is they bought Serenity as a merchanising opportunity rather than a work of art. I guess we'll have to dream about it as a VR headset?
I'll take the good with the bad on this one. Doesn't a "merchandising oppurtunity" mean that there will be all sorts of t-shirts, toys, games, and other great things for us to buy!? That's awesome!
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That would be damn cool. I only wish I knew how to do something like that. Someone do this, please!
I'm with zeke on the merchandising. Plus, as long as there's more oppurtunities for people to discover Firefly, I'm not that bothered as to the motivations of those who are selling it.
JK
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Do you think that there is a way for us to show interest in a Firefly video game? I mean, lots of movies come out with video games... and if they are doing this for merchandising purposes, if there is a call for it, they'll do it.
-Z
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^^ if you call for it on the Universal Serenity site, you may earn points, and points mean ...
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