SeanMay

I know there will be one path where the player can just comply with the will of the robots, reading the news every day. It would be a short loop, because the player is kept in a cell and doesn't do anything other than read the news. I'll make this go on for way too long for the possibility that somebody will actually not want to fight back against oppressive robots. I'll make that path end eventually with some sort of random catastrophe like the robots kill him or the player loses his mind and kills himself. The other path will be that the player sees some kind of opportunity when he's reading the news every day, like there's a loose panel in the floor or something...I haven't really figured that out yet. Once he breaks out of the prison/TV studio, he'll emerge into a world he's never seen before, filled with humanoid robots who have never seen a living human. From there, the player will be able to fight, sabotage, harass and just generally cause chaos in the robot world around him. There might even be some fist fights with robots. I know Twine allows for variables so I could essentially do some RPG-style dice rolls to see if the player survives. If I want to be a real bastard, I might make the game not actually 'beatable', you just play and cause as much chaos as you can before you're inevitably taken down by the robots. I haven't quite decided that yet, but it stands to reason that a lone human in a world of robots that has no resources, no food, and no allies wouldn't survive for very long. With all this, I think my biggest difficulty will be keeping the scope at a reasonable level so this thing can be actually finished by the end of the jam.

Interesting stuff (even though I'm not in the UK so I can't access everything), but I'm a little bit baffled by their so-called "family tree" for the show depicting the various media Twin Peaks has allegedly influenced. Some are obvious (The X-Files, Donnie Darko, Silent Hill), but I'm really trying to figure out how the show influenced The Wire and The Sopranos...is it just that Twin Peaks showed that you could tell a long-form, serialized story that spans months or entire years? And then I'm also really trying to figure out how the show influenced The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo...great movie, but I have no clue how Twin Peaks would have influenced it.

Guys, we may have found the one person in the universe other than Windom Earle who actually liked the chess set-ups! On a side note, is talk about Lynch's other work fair game here or too off-topic? Because I just watched Lost Highway for the first time last night and I'm upset that I'm pretty sure it's a bad movie except for some very small portions. For reference, I absolutely loved Mullholland Dr, but LH just felt empty and dull to me and sort of felt like James Hurley: The Movie once

I started watching Six Men Getting Sick and The Amputee, and maybe I was just not in the mood for them at the time, but they seemed more like art installations than his other work, and were a little too grating. I should probably give them another try, along with the others, now that I just finished FWWM last night and really, really enjoyed it. As for The Straight Story being very Lynchian, I think you're exactly right. I have the DVD for it, I better give it a watch.

I think it's a wonderful idea, especially considering that Kyle MacLachlan has said he sees his character in Blue Velvet as a college-aged version of Cooper, Mulholland Dr. began life as a spin-off series for Audrey, and Lynch has said that Lost Highway takes place in the same universe as Twin Peaks, I think there's a lot to talk about. That, and I think even without considering those (somewhat weak) ties to the series, Lynch's other films do a lot to explore many of the same themes that Peaks explores, like duality, fractured realities, and unstoppable evil forces. I think that it's a bit reductive to lump all this stuff into some sort of "Lynch-verse", but I think that Lynch is very unique in terms of directors in that he seems to want to elaborate as much as possible on very similar themes and tropes, to where discussing the totality of his work can really give you some amazing insight about each individual work. I've still yet to see his more mainstream films (Dune, The Elephant Man, The Straight Story), so I don't know how much I'd want to hear about them since they don't seem to deal with the same themes. But, honestly I'd just really like to hear the guys discuss Lynch more, because this podcast is one of the most insightful and fun podcasts I listen to. Even if that means we end up getting entire episodes devoted to single The Angriest Dog In The World strips, I'll take it.