>>6019600>>6019613>>6019629>>6019639>The BRONZE AGE>vampires>>6019320>>6019430I liked how the name of the club in Buffy was called The Bronze. It is a very clever name (not just evoking metal, music etc) it sort of suggests an entire historical era / epoch, rite of adolescence / passage and some primitive savagery / barbarism connotations too.
>modern setting>could you make a game, where the entirety of the action occurs on a phone? (NOT cyberpunk / sci-fi though)These days there is probably no 'Third Place' (meeting place beyond home, work/school etc) with the fraying of communal bonds etc as the sociologists used to define it or that insightful Third Place playstation advert directed by David Lynch hehe (not as good as his bambi deer one); the Third Place is probably a dating app or some invisible algorithm beyond your oversight or control that pulls the desires of the human meat puppet populace nooo
Sam Levinson is very good with the integration of the apps and the messaging and social media and phones into dramatic narrative (his Euphoria, The Idol tv series all incorporate this really well, very fluidly and naturally) if you think about it a lot of game scenarios or narrative situations unravel with possession of even just the mere capability / near instantaneous telepathy of sending a text message etc. And cyberspace has extruded into realspace, there is no division or artificial duality of the cyberpunk hacker with the electrodes and helmet visor tunnelling through intrusion countermeasures in the virtual neon firewall city because the exact same set of social status hierarchies privileges insecurities anxieties transfer across both domains. If you are wealthy educated attractive popular enough in physical realspace it is pretty much the same bragging online etc (maybe it was different in the early internet or how Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines nosferatu hackers portrayed it lol) it is harder now than ever to partition the self
So I mentioned on the past qtgs I was thinking in my alternate vampirism / re-modernised vampire adaptation of VAMPIRES AS DATA or being possessed / enthralled by data (like humans... as the virtual assistants or embodiments of agentic AI?) Like maybe it is a wellbeing app or something innocuous etc. I had this scenario setup where the beach house
>>6019600was some sort of lavish celebrity rehab centre, or maybe some sort of mysterious spa-like psychotherapy wellness retreat etc. Alternatively it might be a sort of tech bro hacker house (or online streamer house? maybe a bit 2018 though) or perhaps some co-working / co-living space. This is still an idea I am evaluating, though I have been to San Francisco many times on tech conferences, it does not help that I have never been to LA or rehab lol
pic related depicts a forgotten era that never probably ever even existed
