Another bit of web-vaporware from the back of my brain

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File this in with the timeline web widget for writers. God, I need to learn more PHP/MySQL. God, I NEED MORE TIME AND SPOONS.

(This is what I meant about wanting to hire a small strike force of artistic/technical ninjas. To keep up with all the crap my brain spews out for me to do.)

Call this a combination between an online LARP casting questionnaire and a purity test. The basic idea is, there would be a website where you could log in with username and password, and there would then be an exteeeeensive series of questions covering various situations and character traits in LARPs. Kind of like the "are you comfortable playing somebody who's gay/in a leadership role/sings/is a plant/immortal sociopath" section of most casting questionnaires, but expansive. For each thing, you would get to rate it on, say, one to five (from DO NOT WANT through meh through PRECIOUSSS), and there would be an additional checkbox for "I will not play this period ever hard limit." You could save your results, edit them, and so forth.

And casting GMs could view them.

In a hypothetical dream world where this actually catches on, most players would only have to fill out the whole shebang once. Ever. They sign up for a game, the casting GM goes to the vaporware thingie, looks at their various answers, and has most of the information they need right there. Casting questionnaire is boiled down to contact information, kitchen sink, and any really game-specific questions. (For example, "are you familiar with source material blah" for any fan/derivative/referential LARP.) And the casting GMs have way more information on a player's style, strengths, and limits than they could get from a standard questionnaire.

I would now like to request an extra twenty-four hours in a day. Then maybe I could get everything I want to do in the next year actually done in, oh, say, two. Instead of never.

Unrelated: A tribute to Captain America's crotch. Because scans_daily is crack.

Comments

[bleemoo.livejournal.com]

Talk to natbudin. He and Vickie are designing such a thing, and have considered and addressed many problems you haven't thought of yet.

[natbudin.livejournal.com]

I was going to reply to this as well. What bleemoo said isn't precisely correct, but he doesn't know that (because I didn't know last time I talked to him about it). Anyway, definitely ping me and I'll be more than happy to talk your ear off about this. :)