DBD Homage to Pitch Meetings
Big Boss: So you have a new Killer for me?
DEV: Yes sir... we call him the Trickster.
Big Boss: I like it! So he he has some sort of gags and tricks? He disguises himself to look like a Survivor?
DEV: That would be tricky, but no. He throws knives.
Big Boss: Well we already have someone who throws axes; this sounds like a step down.
DEV: He throws a LOT of knives. We basically make him look like a crazy cartoon character chucking them.
Big Boss: Well ok, but that doesn't sound like a trick, just straight up murder. What makes him tricky?
DEV: Well we call him the Trickster so people will just think about him that way.
Big Boss: I'm not sure that is how it works. Tell me more about him.
DEV: Well he is this K-Pop Star who thinks the sound of screams is his new art form.
Big Boss: Sounds like the Artiste or the Virtuoso would be a better name.
DEV: The what? I don't follow.
Big Boss: Well... those are names that have something to do with the background.
DEV: We already named him the Trickster, so I'm going to need you to get all the way off my back about it.
Big Boss: Well if it is already coded, I guess I don't have a choice. Tell me more about him.
DEV: Ok here is where it gets exciting, his knives make lots of little cuts wearing the Survivors down.
Big Boss: So his knives give them vicious papercuts and he has to hit them a lot?
DEV: Yeah, yeah... yeah!
Big Boss: These are like full sized knives right? How many times does he have to cut them.
DEV: Sixteen.
Big Boss: That sounds like a lot of cuts, but I guess it could get horror by them bleeding out from the cuts.
DEV: On no Sir; that doesn't happen. If he doesn't stay on them until they fall, the damage goes away.
Big Boss: It goes away? How?
DEV: I don't know, because otherwise it would be too realistic?
Big Boss: This sounds awful cartoony. Won't the damage going away force the Killer to just tunnel one person?
DEV: Right! The Trickster just chases you shooting off blades until you fall down.
Big Boss: People complain about that kind of thing. How will he deal with the problem of running out of knives.
DEV: Super easy; barely an inconvenience. He starts with sixty and can juice up from lockers.
Big Boss: Sounds kind of one dimensional; are you sure this is what the player base wants?
DEV: Absolutely; they are always saying how they want another shooter. Unless I read the stats backwards.
Big Boss: Did you?
DEV: I don't know. But don't worry about the one dimensional thing. He builds up to a big power!
Big Boss: Now we are talking! What does it do when it goes off?
DEV: He throws even MORE knives and FASTER.
Big Boss: Uh? Nevermind. What does he look like?
DEV: He is a Korean Joker, but not the good one.... the Jared Leto one.
Big Boss: Not so close to get us sued right?
DEV: Absolutely not. We also gave him a baseball bat with a blade, kind of Joker+Harley gestalt.
Big Boss: Sounds one dimensional and derivative; how soon can we launch it?
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Big Me approves of this post! 👍️
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Dbd homages to pitch meetings are tight!
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kinda cool. I like
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One change I'd make:
Exec: "It goes away? Why?"
Dev: "Because."
Exec: "That works."
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Shoot; I knew I forgot something in the format.... I so should have worked "tight" in. :)
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These pitch meetings seem super easy, barely an inconvenience!
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Can you make this with every new chapter please? @Moundshroud
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I can't promise anything, but I might. I feel almost like going back to the start and working my way forward until now. Really depends on time... might keep me busy and away from doing long-winded, overly opinionated arguments for awhile.
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