My partner was playing Bioshock recently, the original one. Not the sequel. We haven’t gotten that far yet. Despite the post-apocalyptic title, Bioshock is actually a art deco post-WW2 objectivist dystopia set in an Atlantis-like underwater city. With addiction and mind control and zombie-like things you kill with a wrench. Yeah, there’s a lot going on. But it is beautiful and amazing. The mythology of the world is fascinating and the setting is incredible. I wish I’d written it.
Now, of course, I can’t go and copy what the Bioshock writers did. And I wouldn’t want to. But it did give me a lot of ideas for the steampunk story Anah and I have been talking about writing, about how important it is to put a fresh spin on the idea of steampunk without losing the substance of the story.
After Bioshock, my partner played the original Halo, and now we’re on to Dragon Age: Origins. Wonder what inspirations and ideas will come from that…
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