Hello. C J here. I’m just going to continue discussing the video games I’m playing for a while. I’m planning out another batch of Minecraft builds while I play Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team. It’s kind of weird that these are job activities for me but they are. The Minecraft builds need to be done so I can learn some more things about level design. The Pokemon game is what I’m doing for fun. At least it was. Pokemon make great inspiration for the work I do and the stories I write. I’m now having to make more time for it.
Most of the characters in my setting are inspired by the Pokemon games. Our main characters Ivy, Blue, William and Benjamin are all based on some of the Pokemon in the first three generations. Ivy is specifically a fictitious all black Pokemon. Blue is an all blue togepi, William is a persian and Benjamin is a tauros without the horns. I’m going to get back to drawing humanoid versions of the first three generations eventually. These to my knowledge count as parody to the extent that I can sell them. I’m renaming the species anyway.
The game I’m playing is inspirational in the literal storytelling sense of the word. Every run of a dungeon and I get new ideas for characters and their stories. When you recruit a Pokemon you get to name them. This might turn out to be a good way of brainstorming characters since all my species I write about are Pokemon themed. If I name a character something I own the name and then I have an easier time writing stories about them because I’ve played them in a game.
The first dungeon in the game is Tiny Woods and it’s full of low level insect and bird themed Pokemon. There are forests and forest themed settlements in my stories. I have several insect and bird themed species. What if they were friends? If I need to rescue someone from Tiny Woods because a friend needs them back safely then these two Pokemon are already friends. So what happens if two people in my setting who were similar species to them were also friends? Friendship is always a good subject for a book.
C J Mcpherson
Hello. C J here. I've got four new recipes for everyone here. We have everything from Chinese chicken to homemade hot apple cider. Enjoy. The Emperor’s Potatoes Here we have the first food item I ever finished designing for Food of the World – Carthia. I tried three combinations of traditional Asian ingredients and pasta under the assumption that I was doing Italian-Chinese food for the book. I could not for the life of me get any of them to be exciting. They were fine. I don’t eat fine. I got bored of the pasta thing and then thought to myself, ‘what happens if I swap the pasta for another starch? What about a potato?’ It worked. Really well. It worked so well I named them The Emperor’s Potatoes. They’re mashed potatoes and I left the skins on because I like vitamins and then that got me thinking about the traditional medicinal food of Ancient China, ginger. Could I put ginger in a potato dish and have it work? Yes. I can. That surprised me. Be warned, these are almost dangerousl...
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