{"id":29059,"date":"2015-10-16T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=29059"},"modified":"2015-10-16T18:39:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T23:39:19","slug":"knights-of-the-old-republic-ep21-youre-totally-ship-faced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=29059","title":{"rendered":"Knights of the Old Republic EP21: You&#8217;re Totally Ship-faced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xKpgVLugCU0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xKpgVLugCU0'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s say you get the rights to make a &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; product, and now you need to guide your creative staff to nail the look, feel, tone, and overall style of the original three movies. What do you need? I&#8217;m not talking about worldbuilding stuff like Jedi, X-Wings, and Wookies, but more low-level art cues. Let&#8217;s assume you want to make &#8220;new&#8221; Star Wars stuff. You want new races, new planets, and new time periods, but you want the new stuff to still feel like Star Wars.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;Luke NounVerber&#8221; style names.\n<li>Maybe a ship named in the style of &#8220;Adjective Birdname&#8221;.\n<li>Ships should be really lumpy. The original ships were made by dumping out dozens of disparate models and gluing them together to make spaceship-shaped stuff.\n<li>Slender droids with quirky or eccentric personalities.\n<li>Other droids that make beeping noises all the time, even though nobody understands them.\n<li>Use an orchestral score. Or just recycle the original John Williams music.\n<li>Robes and capes for almost everybody, regardless of climate.\n<li>Building exteriors should feel kind of like the spaceships: Lumpy and irregular.\n<li>Most places should look well-worn. Places should have junk laying around. Dirt on the floor. Surfaces should be scuffed and the paint should be fading. A few edges of implied water damage wouldn&#8217;t hurt. Only fascists mop the floor.\n<li>Avoid mundane objects. No paper, coffee mugs, writing tools, etc.\n<li>Computers are banks of blinky lights, like 1960&#8217;s Star Trek.\n<li>It helps to have cables and hoses strewn around, hanging from the ceiling, and running down the walls.\n<li>Rooms with four walls are bad, so break up the square room shape any way you can. Passages are tube-shaped. Slant the walls. Make lots of round rooms. Add some support columns.\n<li>Trim everything with lights.\n<\/ol>\n<p>What other cues make a place feel &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) So let&#8217;s say you get the rights to make a &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; product, and now you need to guide your creative staff to nail the look, feel, tone, and overall style of the original three movies. What do you need? I&#8217;m not talking about worldbuilding stuff like Jedi, X-Wings, and Wookies, but more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[84,513,128],"class_list":["post-29059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-bioware","tag-kotor","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}