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Apr. 10th, 2024 06:58 amFor the sake of planning Starbound, I though I might look yesterday into gathering some b-roll to eventually use for the player's guide. For now, the main purpose would be to determine which actual towns players would end up exploring in each country to be visited, instead of just lumping everything relevant into one single town (real or fictional) or defaulting somewhere immediately recognizable.
Like, Lucky Star is set mostly in the real-life prefecture of Saitama, but across several different towns, although most of those are not specified in-show. Tsukasa and Kagami live in Washimiya (now part of Kuki), Konata lives in Satte, Ryouou High School (based on Kyouei High School in real life) is located in Kasukabe, Omiya is the city where all the mains go to hang out, and then there's Miyuki, who lives in the suburban Ota ward of Tokyo, just outside of Saitama.
That is what I would like for the rest of the world.
To begin with, if I'm gonna be collecting b-roll at all at some point, however I end up going on about that, I might as well set each part of the game wherever any pics I land were originally taken. However, the few particular towns and cities aforementioned are already mandatory. (I could use Google Images for those, but then anyone could just re-find them just by guessing the same terms I'd have used there.)
So, I asked around on Discord and Reddit two days ago, how the authors of Earthbound's own player's guide managed to get photos, and how I could go on about seeking some for myself. One or two people said that those pics were originally stock images stored on CD-ROMs at the time. One other person said I could look for some Facebook groups to join, but someone else yet stated that, short of any actual connections, I am most likely due for radio silence, and frankly, I just didn't feel right about joining the few groups I could find under "Kuki" just for that.
So, I tried my luck yesterday morning with Upwork, in an attempt to see who would be willing to share any offline photos of theirs for a few dollars. Only one person from the Phillipines did, and his were all from just these past few years. (I am looking for stuff from the 2000s, but avoided specifying that and some other details so that no one can just cheat and pass whatever they have off to fall under them.)
I eventually wrote about the whole thing in my notebook, and asked about seeking photos on Uguu Blue. Marie suggested I look up Google Street View Time Machine, but she was the only one to get back to me there.
Brought it up with Mom directly when we drove out for a walk around the cemetery in Bellport, and showed her what I wrote, along with a few of those original pics, after our episode back home. She told me that such exactitudes would not matter so much, as long as everything at least fits the location and timeframe well enough on its own. As for selecting where something should happen, she suggested I just choose a location naturally, but that goes back to my original point:
How should I choose what places or events are located or happen in what town, all individually?
It would be easy for anyone to ask, why don't I just keep things simple and have everything happen in one town in each country, unless something necessitates a neigboring town on its own, but that's exactly what I've already explained is not the case in Lucky Star.
Starting today (or tomorrow, if I'm too tired from work this afternoon), I need to go over the story outline and revise that, before I can commission someone to plan out a set of actual objectives for the game.
Like, Lucky Star is set mostly in the real-life prefecture of Saitama, but across several different towns, although most of those are not specified in-show. Tsukasa and Kagami live in Washimiya (now part of Kuki), Konata lives in Satte, Ryouou High School (based on Kyouei High School in real life) is located in Kasukabe, Omiya is the city where all the mains go to hang out, and then there's Miyuki, who lives in the suburban Ota ward of Tokyo, just outside of Saitama.
That is what I would like for the rest of the world.
To begin with, if I'm gonna be collecting b-roll at all at some point, however I end up going on about that, I might as well set each part of the game wherever any pics I land were originally taken. However, the few particular towns and cities aforementioned are already mandatory. (I could use Google Images for those, but then anyone could just re-find them just by guessing the same terms I'd have used there.)
So, I asked around on Discord and Reddit two days ago, how the authors of Earthbound's own player's guide managed to get photos, and how I could go on about seeking some for myself. One or two people said that those pics were originally stock images stored on CD-ROMs at the time. One other person said I could look for some Facebook groups to join, but someone else yet stated that, short of any actual connections, I am most likely due for radio silence, and frankly, I just didn't feel right about joining the few groups I could find under "Kuki" just for that.
So, I tried my luck yesterday morning with Upwork, in an attempt to see who would be willing to share any offline photos of theirs for a few dollars. Only one person from the Phillipines did, and his were all from just these past few years. (I am looking for stuff from the 2000s, but avoided specifying that and some other details so that no one can just cheat and pass whatever they have off to fall under them.)
I eventually wrote about the whole thing in my notebook, and asked about seeking photos on Uguu Blue. Marie suggested I look up Google Street View Time Machine, but she was the only one to get back to me there.
Brought it up with Mom directly when we drove out for a walk around the cemetery in Bellport, and showed her what I wrote, along with a few of those original pics, after our episode back home. She told me that such exactitudes would not matter so much, as long as everything at least fits the location and timeframe well enough on its own. As for selecting where something should happen, she suggested I just choose a location naturally, but that goes back to my original point:
How should I choose what places or events are located or happen in what town, all individually?
It would be easy for anyone to ask, why don't I just keep things simple and have everything happen in one town in each country, unless something necessitates a neigboring town on its own, but that's exactly what I've already explained is not the case in Lucky Star.
Starting today (or tomorrow, if I'm too tired from work this afternoon), I need to go over the story outline and revise that, before I can commission someone to plan out a set of actual objectives for the game.