This is your brain on creativity.

Today I went nuts for a half-hour or so (I can get a friend to post a tape) and started babbling about a war between five of six races that was going on in my head. It was random and pretty bizarre, but it’s the last day of school and the stress of finals was finally gone, so I just figured, why not?

Back on topic. Afterwards I realized the potential of this idea for a strategy game… which will seem a bit weird after I relate to you what the backstory is. It takes place, as is evident, within my body. The races, however, have nothing to do with germs and white blood cells and whatnot. Quite the contrary, really. The (playable) races are as follows:

Ants and Termites: An alliance of two common insect species that have been festering within the rear skeletal system for a few days and are ready to make their move on the outside world.

Dwarves and Goblins: An unlikely alliance of two ancestral enemies who are forced to defend their ancient homelands within the chest cavity from the encroaching insect threat.

Snakes: The larvae of a huge reptile that infests most of the nervous centers along the spine, these despicable creatures are prepared and ready to make their attack on the brain.

Electric Gnomes: The elite defenders of the metropolitan brain, they have a high technology level and a low population and must defend themselves against the vast serpentine invasion.

Weird? Weird. There are three other races, the Fuzzies, the Insulin and the Adrenalin, but they’re all bland and probably unplayable.The Insulin are allied with the Gnomes, the Fuzzies hate everyone, and the Adrenalin are a wild card. Campaigns would be open-ended and probably take place over a map, with the player choosing which troop movements to make and then facing the battle there. It’s been done, but never very realistically, and this would allow you to do things you’ve always wanted to do, like conquer an insane writer’s lungs.

Or maybe that’s just me. Anyway, give imaginary feedback. It seems possible I could work this into Genome, actually (sans the crackalactic races).

~ by pieboy on December 22, 2005.