Skip to content
OtherSpace MUSH

OtherSpace MUSH

Home of Wes Platt and OtherSpace MUSH

  • JoinTheSaga Links
    • Join the JTS Discord Community
    • Roleplaying Logs
  • Interesting Sites
    • SFWA
    • Brandes Stoddard
    • GameCritics
    • Indie Hangover
    • Tribality
    • RPGfix
  • Log In
  • Toggle search form
  • I can’t hear your typing’s intent Online Storytelling
  • F***ing planets, how do they work? OtherSpace
  • Handling touchy topics in video games with care Essays
  • [SLACK ROLEPLAYING LOG] #rp-mars: Implications and Assertions MUSHes
  • What Do You Say No. 2: Favorite Parting Lines? MUSHes
  • Nalhom MUSHes
  • [NOTEWORTHY] Happy Birthday! June 7 #acting #storytelling #amwriting #music Noteworthy
  • 31 Days of OtherSpace No. 11: Ribas Makes a Friend Fiction

The noir will be with you…always

Posted on July 8, 2016July 10, 2016 By Brody No Comments on The noir will be with you…always

almosthtere

Even though Knee Deep’s a swamp noir adventure in a tacky little Florida town instead of a galaxy far, far away, it owes a lot to the Star Wars movies.

I first watched Star Wars in the cinema at Orlando Fashion Square in 1977. Nearly 40 years later, you’ll hear a little Han Solo snark in the grim quips of private investigator K.C. Gaddis. Monroe? He’s just a four-legged Chewbacca. Gary Buckingham and Eula Dean are the redneck replacements for C-3P0 and R2-D2. And, sure, maybe Remy Dixon’s a faux-Cajun mix of Jar-Jar Binks and Darth Maul.

I’ve loved the (original) movies since long before #MayTheFourthBeWithYou became a thing. So, it shouldn’t come as much surprise that I peppered Knee Deep’s narrative with references – some subtle and some as subtle as a wampa at a tauntaun rodeo. The end of Act 2, for example, puts Jefferson Dean Gallant and Robert Woodstep in the roles of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. Gallant laments that Romana Teague was the town’s only hope.

Woodstep responds: “No, Jefferson Dean Gallant. There is another.”

We’ve got moments similar Darth Vader’s first emergence in Revenge of the Sith (without the whining for Padme) and the destruction of Alderaan from A New Hope. Hey, there’s even a chute for our heroes to enter during an action sequence!

But you won’t find any Ewoks in the swamps of Cypress Knee. Just gators and, if you look really closely, maybe a swamp ape.

How about your favorite games? Any Star Wars Easter eggs hiding there?

Wes Platt is the lead writer/designer for Prologue Games. Their first game, an episodic narrative adventure called Knee Deep, launched its final act on Steam in March. Before that, he was a professional journalist for the St. Petersburg Times and Durham’s Herald-Sun. He designed collaborative real-time adventures at OtherSpace, Chiaroscuro, and Necromundus for players at jointhesaga.com. He also worked as a design lead on Fallen Earth, a post-apocalyptic MMORPG, from 2006-2010.

Game Design, Knee Deep, Video Game News Tags:easter eggs, Knee Deep, narrative, Star Wars, video games

Post navigation

Previous Post: [DEV INTERVIEW] KINGDOM’s Thomas van den Berg
Next Post: [KNEE DEEP] Concept art, development prototype gallery

Related Posts

  • Balancing exposition and player agency in indie narratives Game Design
  • [DEV INTERVIEW] The Mind’s Eclipse’s Donald Campbell Journalism
  • Knee Deep’s play is the protagonist Game Design
  • [KNEE DEEP] Stop the presses: Meet Dan Osborne Game Design
  • Celebrating one-year anniversary of Knee Deep’s first act! Game Design
  • [DEV INTERVIEW] KINGDOM’s Thomas van den Berg Game Design

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Join the Saga Today

Pick your favorite client software and point it toward jointhesaga.com port 1790.

  • [CONSORTIUM WORLDS] Centauri MUSHes
  • IC NEWS POST: Choi Eunji leaves SME MUSHes
  • [SLACK ROLEPLAYING LOG] #rp-tavros: Light Through the Darkness MUSHes
  • Meanwhile, an update… MUSHes
  • Randomonday: 11/4/2013 OtherSpace
  • Balloon shipment labeled terrorist act MUSHes
  • What Song No. 2 MUSHes
  • OtherSpace Reboot: Room With A View, Part 3 MUSHes

Copyright © 2025 OtherSpace MUSH.

Powered by PressBook News Dark theme