“Even the Germans couldn’t fix it”
ahahahaha
The most exciting Mass Effect playtest moment yet
Was a simple phone conversation.
Context: Cerberus attacked an Exogeni research facility the players were guarding. Players not only got out alive- they made it out with a treasure trove of prothean artifacts their facility was illegally storing for study. The NPC captain of the facility’s transport ship had been planning the heist, and one PC was a part of her crew rather than hired security- Virtudo Mentrus, a turian combat engineer. By far the most friendly/easygoing character next to all these amoral mercs.
Half an hour after they make it offworld, it slowly becomes clear that the captain’s flat-out vanished. Meanwhile, looks like someone’s been hailing their ship on comms.
[5/24/2012 9:06:58 PM] Dagda: Virtudo sees that the call has been standing by for the better part of 10 minutes, it’s an approved channel (he’s more engine maintenance and muscle than comms officer, so he doesn’t recognize the ID sign.)
[5/24/2012 9:07:55 PM] Askal: He’ll answer it.
1930s imagining of 1980s New York in the sci-fi musical Just Imagine (1930, dir. David Butler) (via)
Designed by art director Stephen Goosson, the city set was an elaborate miniature model that covered a ground area of 75 x 225 feet and whose tallest tower measured 40 feet.
Just Imagine’s New York was primarily inspired by architect Harvey Corbett’s prediction that 1970’s New York would resemble a “very modernized Venice” and by the futuristic urban designs presented in Hugh Ferriss’s 1929 book, The Metropolis of Tomorrow.
Ferriss’s drawings of the ”business center of the future” (pictures #3-5) provided the most direct inspiration for Goosson’s sets. Broad superhighways establish a geometric ground plan that extends upward through overlapping levels of bridges, streets, and terraced walkways. The grid of streets and bridges is pierced by huge freestanding skyscrapers surrounded by lower setback buildings, a design Ferriss created as an analogy to the natural world of “towering mountain peaks… surrounded by foothills”
The opening scenes of the (otherwise mediocre) film, which feature this cityscape, can be seen here.
More on the building of the Just Imagine set. Collection of Hugh Ferriss’s futuristic city sketches here.
monster babs
if only i had motivation to do not shitty storyboards but whatever
the guy on the right looks like a mix between Klayman and a turian :3c
