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knight_movesGot about five hundred words written today. I've made other progress, but I've been bad about marking it down. Though I've also taken some mental health time. I played Hi-Fi Rush, which was a lot of fun, and Medal of Honor: Airborne, which was also nice. It's weird to think of MOH being so arcade-y as to have supernazis stalking around with chainguns. Now, I am a filthy casual, but Airborne does an interesting thing of having an almost open-world system, where you can just about choose where your character parachutes in and then go about the level as you like. And when you respawn, it's usually not at a checkpoint--you parachute in again.
There were still some hinks, like respawning enemies, so if you miss an objective and move on, you'll have to fight your way through another mass of Nazis to get back to it. But still, it's a fun idea. I'd love to see it in a setting with the drop pod trope, like Starship Troopers or ODST, so you can go really OTT with dropping down from orbit and landing wherever.
With that in mind, I also got some work done on my screenplay. It's hard keeping it even within friend zone distance of historical accuracy, since I want both US main characters and Dracula in Transylvania, but I think I managed a decent explanation as to why anyone with an American accent would be within spitting distance of Romania. (Sure, I could explain that this is Dracula's Italian castle or something, but like that's any fun.)
Anyway, here's the text scroll/voiceover from the first scene. It admittedly falls a bit short of sheer fact, but I'm going for Clint Eastwood realism, not realism-realism.
There were still some hinks, like respawning enemies, so if you miss an objective and move on, you'll have to fight your way through another mass of Nazis to get back to it. But still, it's a fun idea. I'd love to see it in a setting with the drop pod trope, like Starship Troopers or ODST, so you can go really OTT with dropping down from orbit and landing wherever.
With that in mind, I also got some work done on my screenplay. It's hard keeping it even within friend zone distance of historical accuracy, since I want both US main characters and Dracula in Transylvania, but I think I managed a decent explanation as to why anyone with an American accent would be within spitting distance of Romania. (Sure, I could explain that this is Dracula's Italian castle or something, but like that's any fun.)
Anyway, here's the text scroll/voiceover from the first scene. It admittedly falls a bit short of sheer fact, but I'm going for Clint Eastwood realism, not realism-realism.
THE 6615 RANGER FORCE WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN SPECIAL FORCES. THEY WERE KNOWN AS THE BLACK DEATH BY THE ITALIANS THEY FIRST FOUGHT.
AFTER SEEING ACTION IN NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY, THE RANGERS WERE SENT INTO CISTERNA, WHERE THEY WERE AMBUSHED BY SUPERIOR GERMAN NUMBERS.
OF THE 767 MEN IN THE BATTALION, ONLY A HANDFUL AVOIDED DEATH OR CAPTURE. WITHOUT ENOUGH MANPOWER TO FIELD SO MUCH AS A PLATOON, THE 6615TH WAS OFFICIALLY DISSOLVED.
THE FEW UNINJURED RANGERS WERE TOO UNRULY FOR THE INFANTRY AND TOO EFFECTIVE FOR THE STOCKADE.
ARMY COMMAND SENT THEM INTO YUGOSLAVIA, TO SUPPORT TITO’S PARTISANS AGAINST THE NAZI OCCUPATION.
THEIR RANKING OFFICER WAS TOLD TO PREPARE THE PAPERWORK FOR POSTHUMOUS COMMENDATION BEFORE THEY LEFT.
AFTER SEEING ACTION IN NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY, THE RANGERS WERE SENT INTO CISTERNA, WHERE THEY WERE AMBUSHED BY SUPERIOR GERMAN NUMBERS.
OF THE 767 MEN IN THE BATTALION, ONLY A HANDFUL AVOIDED DEATH OR CAPTURE. WITHOUT ENOUGH MANPOWER TO FIELD SO MUCH AS A PLATOON, THE 6615TH WAS OFFICIALLY DISSOLVED.
THE FEW UNINJURED RANGERS WERE TOO UNRULY FOR THE INFANTRY AND TOO EFFECTIVE FOR THE STOCKADE.
ARMY COMMAND SENT THEM INTO YUGOSLAVIA, TO SUPPORT TITO’S PARTISANS AGAINST THE NAZI OCCUPATION.
THEIR RANKING OFFICER WAS TOLD TO PREPARE THE PAPERWORK FOR POSTHUMOUS COMMENDATION BEFORE THEY LEFT.
