Wonderland; An Idea for a Game

Certainly a nice idea! :grinning:
The great thing with Wonderland theme is that you can make situations and locations as crazy as possible, and it would still be viable, considering the original was written as if one has had too many hallucinogens :sweat_smile:

I look forward to the madness.

Good point. I suppose you could just mention in passing ‘that lion who keeps abducting children’, or something.

Childe Roland (sorry, I misspelled it originally) is an old English fairy tale (it’s quoted by Shakespeare) about a girl who is kidnapped by the King of the Fairies/Elves (she ran around a church in the wrong direction, the silly thing), and her brother (the eponymous Roland) who enters Fairyland to rescue her. He also beheads all the fairies/elves he meets, so you might not want to include that part.

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@ParrotWatcher
Woah. That’s dark.

I love it. I have to read that story now.

Though I now have an image of Tinker Bell( is it Bell or Belle?) being decapitated stuck in my head, and I don’t like that.

Don’t worry though. I plan on having both light and dark moments in the story, so don’t think I’m gonna go full on gothy-edgy-on-purpose like @River is scared of.

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It sounds like a cool idea, the only problem is there are SOOOO MANY twisted wonderland books, games, comics, etc. If you could find a way for it to stand out, that would be incredible. Please do, I would hate to see a game like this fade into the background.

Pfffft, thank you, I appreciate it.
But now I’m really curious: are you going to be drawing from some of the more original fairytales (like, how old some of them are-like Cinderella being an ancient Chinese fairytale) or are you going to use more of the watered down/gilded cagey of the 1800s?

They were more evil elves than Tinkerbells, but, yes, it is a bit dark either way. The story has been referenced in quite a few recent Fairyland stories, often by using the name ‘Roland’ for the protagonist (or the kidnap victim, in at least one version).

I honestly plan on warping the tales a lot, so I wouldn’t really be taking them from any specific place. More or less just whatever version I happened to draw from. Like how I want to draw from the Alice in Wonderland book more than the Disney movie, but I plan on drawing from the Snow white movie, as its the only version of it I’ve ever seen, besides in things like Once Upon a Time

Will we get to choose our gender and seem interested so far

You called the Red Queen Belle, is that meant to be Belle from Beauty and the Beast or another Belle? Regardless this sounds very interesting. Curious what sorts of romance options there could be if you’re considering them, especially if you could end up marrying one of the two Queens?

@Harley_Robin_Evans

Yes, you’d get to choose your gender.

@derekmetaltron

Indeedly do I did indeed, my dear Derek. Yes, that is supposed to be Belle from Beauty and the Beast. The “Beast” would have been the king, who, although not really a monster, was pretty monstrous. By that I mean he was cruel and a tyrant.

Also, yes I planned to include romances, though I didn’t think it’d e a good idea for either of the queens to be RO’s.

Cool idea. You know what you should do? You should turn the “big bad wolf” into what the nemesis was for Resident Evil 3. Keep it always lurking over your shoulder, always trying to hunt you down. Make it so the first multiple times it attack, there will be 0% chance of defeating it, forcing the player to run if they know best. Then make it so that even if you do best it, it simply won’t die until near the end. That would increase tension of the game 100%, while not having any real effect on the rest of the story if you use it between meetings of NPCs. It would also up your word count quite a bit and keep it a bit gritty.

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Well… I already had an idea of how I wanted the big bad wolf…or should I say the big misjudged wolf.
I planned on Li’l Red having giant, monstrous looking she wolf that acted like a huge puppy.

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Please tell me the ware wolf from red riding hood is in it. :relaxed:

oooh, that’d be interesting seeing them interact with like the White Rabbit or Renard the Fox

@Envy

Actually, it’s just a normal wolf. Albeit as normal as a giant wolf half the size of an elephant and looking like Mortal Kombat’s Baracka got turned into a dog can be.

However there will be a were-something. I’ll let you guys guess what that is.

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First I did not know that. Second it’s a ware-what now you have me intrigued sir. :hushed:

@SiROSTRiKE

  1. You will have Robin Hood and Red Riding Hood in your game. Are they some how related?

  2. Will Red Riding Hood actually ride her giant she-wolf?

3a) although Narnia is copyrighted, you could still include a reference by using the names of the Friends of Narnia as name proposals for the MC.

b)Since you liked @ParrotWatcher’s proposal to inlude Childe Roland, could make a third way option for the MC to not take any side in the war but just help Roland to free his sister? Alternatively, if they will work for any of the Queens, they would get a mission to stop a certain crazy spree killer.

  1. I like @Doctor’s idea to have a nearly undefeatable monster. Maybe you could use the Jabberwocky for this?

  2. The Cheshire were-cat?

Ariel the were-mermaid. Jack the were-giant. Cinderella the were-princess. I think I might be onto something here…

@WulfyK
1.) No, they will not be related. Hood is not part of Li’l Red’s name, but I planned on her having a signature red hoodie.
2.) Possibly, though she also has a motorcycle. Normally she’d just ride that and her wolf would follow her on foot. Yes, the wolf is that fast that it can stay with a motorcycle at it’s top speed.
3.)
A. That’d be a good, subtle nod towards itm yes.
B. Haven’t read it yet unfortunately, since I haven’t had the time.
4.) Ahh, the jabberwock. I knew someone would ask about it eventually. I already planned on incorporating the jabberwock into the story somehow.
5.) Nope. He’ll just be his normal, smiling cat-self. However that is a good guess.

@ParrotWatcher
No, it’d be a were-animal.

Ariel! How could I have forgotten about the little mermaid? I’ve been having so much trouble thinking of fairy tales and I have no excuse for forgetting the little mermaid.

Jack? More like Jacklyn. Yes, I’m thinking about making a character named Jacklyn based off of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Cinderella will be in the story.