Free video game idea: "Jungle Gym Jim"
Type: Simple Platformer
More of an older platformer (like Circus Charlie and Jungle King) than an advanced platformer (like Super Mario Bros), Jungle Gym Jim has to jump, swing and shimmy his way through various jungle gym obstacle courses. Birds and squirrels can get in his way. Jungly Gym Jim is an adult, with stubble and longish black scraggly hair, not a child. Perhaps he is a homeless man just amusing himself on a public school playground when school is not in session.
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
FREE ADVENTURE CHARACTER IDEA: "Chaz Always"
Chaz Always is a comically irreverent adventurer and globe trotter who discovered the secret of immortality. He lives forever, never ages, and is indestructable.
His adventures take place over many centuries. His personality is such that he doesn't put up with the locals. Though he lives a life of high moral order, he is seen as a very immoral person by each culture he comes in contact with.
Living by a simple code of "do no harm", he does not pay rent or property taxes to landlords, nor does he contribute to what collectivists would see as "the greater good", a notion which time and time again has proven to be disastrous. He breaks whatever unjust laws he wants to and encourages other people to do so (usually a girlfriend or sidekick), and protects them whenever society tries to punish them. The more of the world cultures he becomes familiar with, the more he sees through their arbitrary rules as justifications for authoritarianism. Far from the activist in this area, he simply doesn't heed authority, instead using action on behalf of those without his immortality and invulnerability.
He sees ridicule as a harmless act, so he often ridicules or verbally disrespects authorities and other villains whom mortals greatly fear. His calm way of disrespecting the powerful often makes mortals nervous. Since he can not be harmed, he treats the very powerful like harmless irate children, often fathering and pampering them, much to their embarrassment.
He does not respect any coded law, but he does respect individual autonomy. He eats what he wants and does not respect territory or jurisdiction. This angers many types of people, but he always has a few good people on his side, who he fights to defend, and who he becomes close to.
By constantly breaking harmless laws, and refusing to pay the price or be arrested, he is often shot, stabbed, or attacked by authorities. His neutral and harmless actions expose the evils of all cultures.
The only time he ever uses physical action against someone is to protect someone from punishment or attack. The peril will come from the peril that other mortals Chaz cares for face.
Chaz Always knows that humanity will remain imperfect, but that some people are more kind than others. He protects the kind and deflects the wicked, while living life for himself.
Over the centuries, Chaz has learned the following lessons:
-Never get involved in defense unless you happen to be a witness.
-Never comply with pyramid schemes like rent or employment, no matter how popular these ideas become.
-Never hurt an attacker more than the amount required to temporarily deflect their attack (unlimited patience with repeat offenders).
-Everybody's got good and evil in them, and people go through phases of being better or worse.
-All institutions are aggressive institutions. Never comply with their policies.
-Take what you want from nature, but respect people's houses. Trespassing and eating food from "owned" land and farms is OK.
[Written by Jesse Hopkins, as are all entries on this blog]
Chaz Always is a comically irreverent adventurer and globe trotter who discovered the secret of immortality. He lives forever, never ages, and is indestructable.
His adventures take place over many centuries. His personality is such that he doesn't put up with the locals. Though he lives a life of high moral order, he is seen as a very immoral person by each culture he comes in contact with.
Living by a simple code of "do no harm", he does not pay rent or property taxes to landlords, nor does he contribute to what collectivists would see as "the greater good", a notion which time and time again has proven to be disastrous. He breaks whatever unjust laws he wants to and encourages other people to do so (usually a girlfriend or sidekick), and protects them whenever society tries to punish them. The more of the world cultures he becomes familiar with, the more he sees through their arbitrary rules as justifications for authoritarianism. Far from the activist in this area, he simply doesn't heed authority, instead using action on behalf of those without his immortality and invulnerability.
He sees ridicule as a harmless act, so he often ridicules or verbally disrespects authorities and other villains whom mortals greatly fear. His calm way of disrespecting the powerful often makes mortals nervous. Since he can not be harmed, he treats the very powerful like harmless irate children, often fathering and pampering them, much to their embarrassment.
He does not respect any coded law, but he does respect individual autonomy. He eats what he wants and does not respect territory or jurisdiction. This angers many types of people, but he always has a few good people on his side, who he fights to defend, and who he becomes close to.
By constantly breaking harmless laws, and refusing to pay the price or be arrested, he is often shot, stabbed, or attacked by authorities. His neutral and harmless actions expose the evils of all cultures.
The only time he ever uses physical action against someone is to protect someone from punishment or attack. The peril will come from the peril that other mortals Chaz cares for face.
Chaz Always knows that humanity will remain imperfect, but that some people are more kind than others. He protects the kind and deflects the wicked, while living life for himself.
Over the centuries, Chaz has learned the following lessons:
-Never get involved in defense unless you happen to be a witness.
-Never comply with pyramid schemes like rent or employment, no matter how popular these ideas become.
-Never hurt an attacker more than the amount required to temporarily deflect their attack (unlimited patience with repeat offenders).
-Everybody's got good and evil in them, and people go through phases of being better or worse.
-All institutions are aggressive institutions. Never comply with their policies.
-Take what you want from nature, but respect people's houses. Trespassing and eating food from "owned" land and farms is OK.
[Written by Jesse Hopkins, as are all entries on this blog]
Monday, March 18, 2013
Sunday, March 17, 2013
FREE ANIMATED MOVIE IDEA: Dan the Lion (Dandelion)
Set in the plains of the Serengeti, Dan the Lion dreams of one day becoming the alpha male, but carries a bit of an inferiority complex. When Spaniards come to town, they call him "Dan de lion", which he hears as "dandelion". Hilarity ensues, as Dan flies into a rage every time a Spaniard calls him Dan De Lion, and Dan attempts to salvage what little respect and power he has left.
POSSIBLE CHARACTER ARC:
Dan realizes that his worth is not in how much power or status he has over others.
Set in the plains of the Serengeti, Dan the Lion dreams of one day becoming the alpha male, but carries a bit of an inferiority complex. When Spaniards come to town, they call him "Dan de lion", which he hears as "dandelion". Hilarity ensues, as Dan flies into a rage every time a Spaniard calls him Dan De Lion, and Dan attempts to salvage what little respect and power he has left.
POSSIBLE CHARACTER ARC:
Dan realizes that his worth is not in how much power or status he has over others.
Friday, March 15, 2013
COMEDY SKIT IDEA: Extreme Feelings Reboot Dad
A father is forcefully smiling and crying at the same time because he hates Hollywood remake/reboot syndrome, but at the same time, his young son really likes them because he is a clean slate. His love for his son outweighs his hate of remakes and reboots, but both emotions are so powerful, that his face contorts into a smiling grimace whenever his son is excited about a new remake/reboot, and tears of joy and sorrow flow simultaneously.
"Maybe they will remake He-Man for your childhood, son! That would be so good! (almost crying and smiling forcefully)"
A father is forcefully smiling and crying at the same time because he hates Hollywood remake/reboot syndrome, but at the same time, his young son really likes them because he is a clean slate. His love for his son outweighs his hate of remakes and reboots, but both emotions are so powerful, that his face contorts into a smiling grimace whenever his son is excited about a new remake/reboot, and tears of joy and sorrow flow simultaneously.
"Maybe they will remake He-Man for your childhood, son! That would be so good! (almost crying and smiling forcefully)"
Thursday, March 14, 2013
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