Not counting random bits of burlesque choreography which may or may not ever see the light of day, this has been a very slow year so far creatively, with depressingly little interest in getting me nakey in front of cameras. I'm seriously contemplating making it my final year modelling, in fact, as the weekend job I do to sustain this weird "career" choice has become itself so demoralising (mercifully short hours but a really nasty, narrow-minded workforce) that I'm thinking I'd be happier just taking a full-time job somewhere less toxic and accepting the loss of creative time.
In the meantime, though, I'm still polishing off my list of miscellaneous weird little projects, and latest off the list, in the category of retro video gaming, is ...
"Synthia in the Cyber-Crypt" (C64 - requires emulator)
In a nearby parallel universe, where the unfortunate discovery of alien technology and the resulting arms race caused the Cold War to turn apocalyptic in 1962, the human race is nearly doomed. Its last survivors are a group of scientists on the verge of being hunted to death by the very war machines they were commissioned to design. Their only hope rests with an environmental custodian robot affectionately named “Synthia” by her inventor, to whom she has a strong emotional attachment (which may or may not compensate for her total lack of combat programming and personal defence).
Submitted for the 2020 SEUCK competion at http://tnd64.unikat.sk/Seuck_Compo_2020.html, but don't bother trying to vote for it just yet, as the competition runs until June.
