Welcome to the Infocalypse
I've migrated the content from the Saijo City site (saijocity.com) and also from Facebook, where I originally had tried to setup a workgroup for Saijo stuff. I think this ning.com site will work much better. There's a lot more content now.
Basically, part of the Saijo City project is community/collaborative driven. We all are in this together, thinking, working, writing out loud. Parts of it are as much yours as it is mine. :)
To use another fantasy world as an example, let me explain how Saijo works:
Think of the Batman franchise. Batman, Robin, Joke, Gotham city-- the whole nine yards. Well, that entire franchise is copyright and you can't do much but consume it. If you wanted to make a story that is set against the backdrop of Gotham city, technically you can't. (Sure you can write fan fic, but don't expect to go further than that).
Saijo is set up into three main chunks. (And this is extremely tough to do-- not even Creative Commons allows for this kinda of 'splinter' licensing. But here goes...)
1. The official characters and main storyline is Copyright Eric Rice/Slackstreet Entertainment.
2. The CITY itself, is Creative Commons, which is to say, if you wanted to create a work of fiction and set it in Saijo City (the same way you might write a novel and set it in Los Angeles 2048), you can. If something is compelling enough or awesome enough, it might make the jump from one side to the other.
3. The soul of the city. This is what we all observe, what we all do-- hearsay and speculation, rumors, unconfirmed reports. I thought about what the 'soul' meant and it dawned on me one day when I walked into the Second Life version of Saijo City. I walked in and saw stuff happening. I blogged it. No roleplay, no nothing--- I just witnessed something, and documented it. We all can do this. No one owns our experiences.
And since the idea is to put a little transliterate flavor into Saijo by way of other worlds, other games, even real life-- the experiences we have are actual experiences. And hopefully, we can help each other translate those to something that might fit into the period and genre.
The genre is cyberpunk. The date is somewhere in the future, within say, 100 years of now. Maybe less. I can't begin to try and explain cyberpunk, so do your research on that. There's more than enough out there. It's dirty future and clean future; haves and have nots. And maybe a flying car or two. :)
The Infocalypse is how it all comes together.
Basically, part of the Saijo City project is community/collaborative driven. We all are in this together, thinking, working, writing out loud. Parts of it are as much yours as it is mine. :)
To use another fantasy world as an example, let me explain how Saijo works:
Think of the Batman franchise. Batman, Robin, Joke, Gotham city-- the whole nine yards. Well, that entire franchise is copyright and you can't do much but consume it. If you wanted to make a story that is set against the backdrop of Gotham city, technically you can't. (Sure you can write fan fic, but don't expect to go further than that).
Saijo is set up into three main chunks. (And this is extremely tough to do-- not even Creative Commons allows for this kinda of 'splinter' licensing. But here goes...)
1. The official characters and main storyline is Copyright Eric Rice/Slackstreet Entertainment.
2. The CITY itself, is Creative Commons, which is to say, if you wanted to create a work of fiction and set it in Saijo City (the same way you might write a novel and set it in Los Angeles 2048), you can. If something is compelling enough or awesome enough, it might make the jump from one side to the other.
3. The soul of the city. This is what we all observe, what we all do-- hearsay and speculation, rumors, unconfirmed reports. I thought about what the 'soul' meant and it dawned on me one day when I walked into the Second Life version of Saijo City. I walked in and saw stuff happening. I blogged it. No roleplay, no nothing--- I just witnessed something, and documented it. We all can do this. No one owns our experiences.
And since the idea is to put a little transliterate flavor into Saijo by way of other worlds, other games, even real life-- the experiences we have are actual experiences. And hopefully, we can help each other translate those to something that might fit into the period and genre.
The genre is cyberpunk. The date is somewhere in the future, within say, 100 years of now. Maybe less. I can't begin to try and explain cyberpunk, so do your research on that. There's more than enough out there. It's dirty future and clean future; haves and have nots. And maybe a flying car or two. :)
The Infocalypse is how it all comes together.
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Comment by Eric Rice on July 4, 2007 at 2:06am
- I'm working on setting up 'constructs'... Six Minute Hill will be the first one, and hopefully everyone can use that as a guide...
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Comment by Oz Spade on July 4, 2007 at 2:04am - This sounds really cool actually. I'm going to try and write a story or two or more based around Saijo City. :)
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