Sep 16, 2010 15:24
I'll be running SBA tomorrow night for the local crew. I'm trying to take the game's "Rock & Roll Space Opera" tagline to heart - my game is inspired by Heavy Metal (the film and soundtrack), anime (Black Lagoon and Cowboy Bebop), Buckaroo Banzai, Harry Harrison (The Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero), and Star Wars of course.
Heroes and heroines will all be hot in that rock n' roll way (even the nerdy heroes will have something cool about them), the universe is big place full of strangeness, danger and mystery, big action scenes, and the occasional space opera orchestral intrusion on the soundtrack.
So, I have a playlist full of 70's and 80's rock and metal, some John Williams, the Cobra manga, and my Space Wars book I mentioned the other day to help set the mood.
Rock on!