Patrick Stuart & Amanda Lee Franck Interview: The Doom of the Dark

 

This is my second interview with Patrick (and first with Amanda!), this time about his current Kickstarter The Doom of the Dark. Unlike my previous interview with Patrick which was in text, this is a video interview embedded below.

Doom of the Dark trailer

 

Weird & Wonderful Worlds interview with Patrick Stuart

 

Additionally, Amanda wanted to share Fantasy Art History with Abelard and Joe, her sock puppet youtube show! Amanda can be found on instagram and itch.

 

Patrick wanted to share the kickstarter page for Knights of the Snail Book One, which will likely launch later this year, and his recently launched book Queen Mabs Palace. Patrick can be found on the False Machine blog and substack.

 

If this is your first time reading Weird & Wonderful Worlds, I'd like to point you to two of my projects.

 

Maximum Recursion Depth, or Sometimes the Only Way to Win is to Stop Playing: The Karmapunk RPG is my TTRPG, available in print+pdf on Exulted Funeral, or pdf-only on drivethrurpg and itch.

 

 

I've also been working on The Superhero Project, an SCP-style collaborative worldbuilding project that's like a wiki for a fictional superhero publisher with a focus on Morrison-esque weirdness. The codebase is open source, seeking contributors but more than that suggestions for how the project should operate logistically, and most of all someone with graphic design or frontend experience to make it look nice.

 

And finally for those of you here specifically for T&T, many years ago I wrote quite a bit of T&T content. 

THE SUPERHERO PROJECT

"The Superhero Project" is a pet project I proposed several years ago and most of my blog posts with the superheroes tag were created with this project in mind. I have finally started developing it and theoretically it could be deployed as an actual public website relatively soon.

 

The idea is for an SCP-style open source, creative commons, collaborative worldbuilding project, but specifically for a shared Superhero universe similar to Marvel or DC, while also perhaps being more Weird & Wonderful ;).

 

I have made the code open source and someone with software engineering skills should theoretically be able to create a local build, as I am currently developing with, but also keep in mind it's very much still WIP.

 

Here is the Superhero Project GitHub Repo.

 

Also embedded in this blog post is a video demo of the local build.

 

EDIT: I originally uploaded the video directly to blogger but they downscale it to 360p so I've uploaded it unlisted to youtube instead. 

 

 

Even technical things aside, a lot of this is WIP. Here are some questions I have, I'm sure I have many more...

 

• What should the project be called?
  
  
• Is there anyone with frontend and graphic design experience especially who would like to contribute? 
  
  
•  How do I effectively convey the wiki-style of the project i.e. the meta vs. in-universe concepts?
  
  
• Are the Type fields sufficient? Should it be more constrained or less constrained?
  
  
• Does Markdown for the Content make sense?
  
  
• Any other general questions, thoughts, comments, concerns, etc.?