Sunday, December 1, 2013

12/1

10a0- Woke up, low quality sleep (~4 hours). Today will be very challenging, so I will make it a short day. I know long naps are bad, so I'll try staying up for only 12h today.

11a1- Ate cereal. Planned out day.

12p2-
Wrote out the calendar of holidays for AD3.
Difficulty 1/10 Efficiency Rating 10/10

Time keeping on Iacchus-
Iacchus's year is 120 days. The days are 20 hours long. Earth culture is slow to adapt to new standards, so we still use the 12 month system for time keeping. A few characters are born off Earth, so Zoe and Olga's birthdays are on Star Dates, Veronica's uses the Mars Darian calendar, and Beatrice uses an antiquated system. Holidays are still very important to humans, so each daily episode of The Dark Planet is recorded in advance of their respective Earth dates (so if humans on Earth watch the Valentine's day episode, it would have been recorded 2 Iacchan days ago, which are only 20 hours long).

Feb 1st- Player's first day of playing.

Feb 10th- Victory Day. Walt Digknee's 4 year war with a Pro-Human agenda ends.

Feb 14th- Earthling's Valentine's Day

Feb 18th- Sentient Culture Day. Pick a sentient race and learn about their culture...or dress as them.

February 23rd- Thanksgiving Day. We thank the Zeroes for founding the Galactic Society system with 10 habitable planets/moons.

February 24th- Black Fry Day: The mourning day of the extinct Gangun race which perished due to a supernova. To a Black crisp, the Ganguns Fried, on this Day. Ironically, to most sentients, this is a celebrated day that everyone buys stuff.

March 2nd Zerothsmas Eve- Just a warning that Z-day is coming.

March 3rd- Zerothsmas Day- This day commemorates the rule of the Zeroes. Give and receive gifts.

March 8th- Earthling's Women's day. : This day should be controversial. To honor Women's day, I think the survivors should, for once, not run an episode of The Dark Planet (as the show clearly exhibits themes of sexual exploitation). Maybe we'll leave it up to the Captain. How about this, if the Captain decides to cancel  the show, every female survivor will raise their relationshipPoints with the Captain, but if he decides to cancel it, the show will lose 2 million viewers.

March 12th- Isabel's birthday.

March 17th- Earthling's St. Patrick's Day- Unofficially recognized holiday. Some characters will prefer to drink (Zoe, Larissa, and Carmen wants natural oil). Isabel would just prefer to wear green (imagine a four leaf clover on her hat, haha).

March 19th- Captain's birthday. Also, Hentaicook's birthday (perhaps we could make this a sale day for AD3, wouldn't it be nice to be spammed birthday wishes...)

March 25th- Truce Day. The Zeroes and the Ones made peace on this day. This means that all the survivors on the station have to kiss and make up with their rivals= lesbian kiss day

April 1st- Earthling's April Fool's Day

April 2nd- Carmen98's activation date. (Do androids have electric birthdays?)

April 16th- Elaine's Birthday

April 22nd- Earth Day

1p3- Continued writing calendar, giddied about and ate.
Difficulty rating 1/10 Efficiency Rating 8/10

2p4- Finished eating. Worked a little bit on Day 6 morning script. Attempted to take a power nap. Failed.
Difficulty rating 4/10 Efficiency Rating 4/10

3p5- Feeling groggy. Worked on Morning 6 script.
Difficulty rating 5/10 Efficiency rating 7/10

Day 6 Morning
Ten days ago...

Day Four since Invasion Day-

EarthGov wouldn’t send us a ship... at least not a ship fast enough to get to us to safety within a few weeks. We had to make money.

We were in a conference call with the network executives at ZYX Broadcasting and Tyrell, the mining company that brought us here. The negotiations were fast, and we quickly settled on a contract to exclusively distribute the show "The Dark Planet" to audiences across the galaxy. 

The contract touched on many things. Our survivor crew was now part of the Televised Acting Group (TAG), a union that ensured that ZYX Broadcasting couldn’t oppressively dominate our acting schedules. Each TAG  member was paid for their acting, but the payment was to be held on Earth until we returned home. This gave a weird I.O.U. vibe to the group. Lieutenant Isabel issued promissory notes in place of money whenever we received money from either the show or commercials.

Thankfully due to a number of stations wanting to pick up the show, we were able to find a great deal. We only needed a month of footage but the deal also required a season of publicity deals, talk show endorsements, and a documentary when we got back home. The deal is risky because if we fall under a certain quota of viewership, the network execs would collect the footage without giving us a ride home. To get viewership, we would have to do commercials while on the station. Survival was no longer of the fittest, but of the fanciest!


All this, just so we could buy a vessel the size of a bus that would fit about 20 passengers and get us off the station.
5p7- Exercised. Browsed internet for 30m.

6p8- Worked on IsabelBikini.
Difficulty- 2/10 Efficiency Rating 6/10

7p9- Worked on IsabelBikini.
Difficulty- 2/10 Efficiency Rating 9/10

8p10- Worked on IsabelBikini.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency Rating 10/10

9p11- Worked on IsabelBikini...and forgot all about my schedule. I'm feeling pretty wakeful right now. I should have switched to a different task an hour ago though, this is too easy.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency Rating 10/10

10p12- Read over some story bits that I wrote a while back, editing here and there, and ate spaghetti and meatballs. Working and Eating at the same time! Unfortunately my appetite is not as voracious as it was a few days ago.
Difficulty 4/10 (eating fast is difficult!) Efficiency Rating 7/10

11p13- Talked to a writer about him helping me out with the game, organized documents... Still eating.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency Rating 9/10

12p14- I still need to go over these docs and get them all organized. There's just a ton of writing everywhere.
Difficulty 1/10 Efficiency Rating 10/10

1a15- Just organizing. A few story edits here and there. I've been putting this off for a long time, so now's a good day to do it.
Difficulty 1/10 Efficiency Rating 10/10

1:30a15
Time to stop for the night.

Here's a funny tidbit I wrote a while back for the game.
We manage to find Carmen's breasts. The robotic breasts are evading our capture by running into vents. 
27B/6 (breasts): I'm never going to fuck a human again! Leave me alone! 
Captain: It's not buying it. Maybe we can appeal to it's sense of belonging within society. 27B/6, Do you know what happens when humans are deprived of their sex robots? The humans can't function anymore, and as a result, they can't repair you if anything wrong happens to you. You have sex with us, we repair you. We all have to help each other! 
27B/6: I'm FINE! I'm FIXED! You guys can suck your own dicks! Pee on your own faces! Perform Dirty Sanchezes on each other! 
Captain: But we're no good at it! You're the best at sucking dicks! Think of how...inefficient it would be if humans tried to have sex with one another! 
27B/6: GO FUCK YOURSELVES!
Report: I did pretty well today for only 4 hours of sleep. I was highly efficient and motivated. I was afraid that today was going to be difficult, but I was wrong. I could have taken more difficult tasks in the middle of the day when my concentration was at its highest, but I was too lazy to switch. Sorry I don't have any visuals to show for the day. Grade A.

5 comments:

  1. I think it's great that you are planning to have various 'event' scenarios that will help break the monotony of merely survivng the games daily challenges.

    Will Captains be able to see these daily events looming on the horizon like on a galatic calender view? Or will they be events that pop-up randomly as various crew members remind him on the day of the event?

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    1. The events will randomly pop up, although Isabel will remind the player of the more important dates that have weightier consequences.

      Don't forget that these are just the holidays. There are other events in the game like crises that forces the player to choose an outcome, a few flashbacks, interviews with the crew... The cast of The Dark Planet has to keep billions of sentient viewers entertained!

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  2. How's about "Blow the Captain Day"?

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  3. I see you're thinking of making you birthday a sale day (not a bad idea), but why not give yourself some extra time and make it the launch date? That way you can have a launch sale (Hooray for everyone) and also let you take the work a little easier, or put more effort in, whichever. I find that picking a date that's memorable for projects (birthday, parent's birthday, solstice) helps to track progress, although that's more for working with teams of people. Either way, it's great to see the game's coming along so well!

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