I've seen a few threads about this in the search engine, but they were all pretty short, and from what I can tell, thread necromancy is frowned upon, so I'm starting up one of my own.
As fun as blowing up German and Japanese soldiers with "futuristic" weapons tech is, I was always the most intrigued by the Culture Clash between uptimers and downtimers (the racial, sexual, and sexual orientation egalitarianism we take for granted being met with scrutiny by downtimers, showing future films in our own movie theaters, etc.).
Are there any effects you almost wished (were it not for the pesky obstacle of narrative pacing) were futher expanded on? For a similar project that's been floating around in my head, I had thought that maybe the uptimers and downtimer government would reach an agreement that it would be considered poor taste to play uptime anti-war films in theaters (Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, and Black Hawk Down probably wouldn't see the light of day until all the Axis powers said uncle).
What about uptimer soldiers who used to be cops before they got ISOT'd into the 1940s? That could make an interesting buddy cop story, with an uptimer soldier deciding to "return" to civilian life back when police did things very differently and working with a downtimer "veteran."
And of course, there's also the fact that the little slice of Future America is going to have its autonomy stripped away a year after the Axis surrender. One wonders what that'll mean for the various minority personnel living there.
P.S. On a tangental note, is it considered a faux-pas to post a thread in the writers forum with just raw ideas, and not excerpts of actual written work? I'm a bit of a dreamer with hopes of coming up with a Deus Ex/Fallout 3 style FPRPG with a very similar premise to AoT, and want to discuss the various possibilities of how to write such a story. Unfortunately, with a B.A. in English, it's all rather unlikely unless I can get in touch with my computer nerd friend. Hopefully it would be fun enough to at least discuss hypotheticals.
As fun as blowing up German and Japanese soldiers with "futuristic" weapons tech is, I was always the most intrigued by the Culture Clash between uptimers and downtimers (the racial, sexual, and sexual orientation egalitarianism we take for granted being met with scrutiny by downtimers, showing future films in our own movie theaters, etc.).
Are there any effects you almost wished (were it not for the pesky obstacle of narrative pacing) were futher expanded on? For a similar project that's been floating around in my head, I had thought that maybe the uptimers and downtimer government would reach an agreement that it would be considered poor taste to play uptime anti-war films in theaters (Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, and Black Hawk Down probably wouldn't see the light of day until all the Axis powers said uncle).
What about uptimer soldiers who used to be cops before they got ISOT'd into the 1940s? That could make an interesting buddy cop story, with an uptimer soldier deciding to "return" to civilian life back when police did things very differently and working with a downtimer "veteran."
And of course, there's also the fact that the little slice of Future America is going to have its autonomy stripped away a year after the Axis surrender. One wonders what that'll mean for the various minority personnel living there.
P.S. On a tangental note, is it considered a faux-pas to post a thread in the writers forum with just raw ideas, and not excerpts of actual written work? I'm a bit of a dreamer with hopes of coming up with a Deus Ex/Fallout 3 style FPRPG with a very similar premise to AoT, and want to discuss the various possibilities of how to write such a story. Unfortunately, with a B.A. in English, it's all rather unlikely unless I can get in touch with my computer nerd friend. Hopefully it would be fun enough to at least discuss hypotheticals.
