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Too Cute For Crime 
29th-Feb-2008 10:08 pm
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I've been working on the latest draft of Criminal Element, the inevitable beta playtest document thingie, which I'm calling the "Shotgun Bible".  I'm calling it the Shotgun Bible because a) I want to have a name for the beta that isn't "beta playtest" and b) it's a cool fucking name. 

Anyway, I've got a particular way of writing, especially when it comes to CE.  I try and get the feel of the game down in the writing.  I would like people to read it and just feel that "heist movie" vibe.  In this hope, I've written the following two lines when describing a part of the game mechanics:

"A heist is like geometry; it’s full of angles.  And all crooks have an understanding of the mathematics of crime."


I've got the feeling that that line is just a little too cute to wind up in the final draft.  Way too cute.  But damn if that little bit there doesn't make me smile. 
The Discussion 
1st-Mar-2008 03:51 am (UTC)
Honestly, you'd only need to take out the second sentence; the first one works in a hard-boiled way.
1st-Mar-2008 06:31 am (UTC)
Agreed. The first sentence alone is punchy. It's "big print on back cover" punchy.
1st-Mar-2008 07:12 am (UTC)
A heist is like geometry, all full of angles.

To make it out whole, you've got to understand the mathematics of crime.
2nd-Mar-2008 03:52 am (UTC)
Ooooooh. You are good, Fred. That's tasty.
2nd-Mar-2008 04:09 am (UTC)
Actually the expanded version that happened in my head was:

A heist is like geometry, all full of angles -- most of them sharp.

One false move, and you're cut and bleeding.

To make it out whole, you've got to understand the mathematics of crime.

But hey, whatever. :)
2nd-Mar-2008 04:26 am (UTC)
Fred, I did tell you that you're my motherfucker, right?

'Cause, man. Really.
2nd-Mar-2008 02:27 pm (UTC)
Mos def.
2nd-Mar-2008 03:55 am (UTC)
Awww, shucks. Thanks man.

I'm still not sure where the line should fit into the game, but I like it more than a little bit. You might just be right about the back cover bit.
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