Friday, March 21, 2025

My idea for a graphic novel based on an online role-playing game


Background:  I would love to design and then play within full sensory dive virtual reality worlds similar to the fictional for now, Matrix movies.  Imagine playing in the Dungeons and Dragons world of Dragonlance / world of Krynn where the simulation allows you to visit the Inn of the Last Home, where you drink fine ale and eat spiced potatoes.

The one problem that I have with stories such as Only Sense Online or Sword Art Online is that each game company has only one game.  Real game companies publish several types of games.  Thus, my novel would describe a family friendly world similar to Friendship is Magic and a world for mature audiences similar to Game of Thrones, published by the same company.  All these gamers signed contracts that describe what experiences they are promised to have, as well as penalties for the game company for breaking their contracts.  These games last for one year at a time; due to the expense of hooking up a human brain to the VR world.

You ask me, where is the conflict?  An angry employee wishing to damage the VR game company sends gamers of the family friendly world to the mature world; while sending the mature world players to the family friendly world.  These two separated groups of gamers are able to send text and video messages to each other, while they deal with VR worlds that they are unprepared to live in.

I acknowledge that my idea is a slight difference to already successful stories.  But, my story would be fun to read about.

Image text:  Imagine a story about one, online virtual reality game company that makes two completely different worlds.  One world is a family friendly world, filled with cute PC - NPC characters, slice of life adventures, following the comedy genre.

The other world is a mature world, where injury and death is commonplace.  It is designed for the players to live in an amoral, dystopian, and violent world of the speculative fiction genre.  It is up to the players to decide if they want to reform this amoral society, or to indulge in this world’s ingrained antisocial behavior.


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