Big-Picture Themes

I came across this transcription of a speech on my Mastodon feed this morning. Reading it got me feeling super inspired. This is such a good distillation of many of the values I’ve been learning and striving for in life.

FLIES FLIES FLIES starts out as a mystery on the scale of one family, the Flynns, and what happens to Finn (who becomes Flyman). But I’ve written and planned it to go far beyond that scope and explore the big ideas and problems of our time. Sometimes all my social media and news feeds only have bad news, and it looks like there won’t be time to tell the story and get that far before we’re all truly f***ed. I hope that’s not how things turn out!

But today I’m thinking about how there’s a core aspect to my project that sets it apart from major sci-fi comedy influences like Rick and Morty—the story I’m telling is not nihilistic. It has values. I don’t know to what extent I’ve brought that across on the Steam page or in any of the marketing. And would it help, or do people these days think values are embarrassing and nihilism is where it’s at. (Edgy and dark, on the other hand—I’ve got plenty of that to offer up).

If you take some time to read that speech, I hope you like it as much as I did.