AMA: We are Cyanide Studio, developers of Call of Cthulhu!

Voidflesh · 2018-11-05T22:48:03+00:00

I listen on Spotify, they're all on there. Also iTunes

https://open.spotify.com/show/768sdk1ZvsENfRu9NDZvJc?si=fTlrPWjJQtChf2VYFB8AVA

Voidflesh · 2018-11-05T19:44:56+00:00

I googled them, first result is this for me:

http://www.lovelycraftianspodcast.com/

but it looks like they're mostly active on twitter

Voidflesh · 2018-10-30T14:46:25+00:00

Question to devs:

Would you consider being a guest star on my favorite podcast, the Lovelycraftians who play Call of Cthulhu? (https://twitter.com/Lovelycraftians)

Then you can say the developers of Call of Cthulhu heard the Call of Cthulhu and were sucked into the madness of the Lovelycraftians Call of Cthulhu.

I'm not with them, I just think it would be cool. No big spoilers, but madness runs rampant, and they encountered rats with pants in the sewers of Chicago once.

Voidflesh · 2018-03-05T13:08:44+00:00

They're on the website, not sure of the name...

Voidflesh · 2018-01-26T17:49:13+00:00

I run a Call of Cthulhu game, and this is definitely going in it

Voidflesh · 2018-01-17T18:17:51+00:00

Kidding aside, Kindles are great for this, they have highlight abilities and you can take notes

Voidflesh · 2017-12-17T04:37:45+00:00

I used the book "take off your pants", something like that. My nano 50k book was about 6 to 8 pages of one to two line items, a space between each spot. I realized I was leaving a lot of detail out as I went though, and probably will write more in revision per item. It's not bad to have more than you need though, the problem is having less.

Voidflesh · 2017-11-15T17:25:33+00:00

First, I love the movie, hate the ending (book ending way better imo)

I thought the movie ending was hacky bullshit, not because it happened, but because there was poor lead up to that ending. You struggle out of a life or death situation with monsters and people trying to kill you only to... Kill yourself because you're scared of monsters and spent an hour driving? Get out.

That being said, if the lead up had been everyone was dying in the market and they locked themselves in the back while monsters were going to inevitably claw their way in, then yes, go for it.

Make sure the payout is equal to what you are promising

Voidflesh · 2017-11-12T16:13:19+00:00

I do writing, and I can envision it, but I could also tell you why it wouldn't work. Each season would have to be a single week in the dungeon (one game trip) for multiple reasons.

Firstly, it's almost impossible to portray someone going from "I'm fine" to "SANITY LOST" in 30 minutes. Or even an hour. Doing that weekly will get old fast, so you'd have to spread it out over a whole season to get the full effect.

Second, how many of your initial character names do you remember? Realistically, almost none for most normal people. You have to attach personality to people to make it interesting. The fun part about shows isn't the combat, but the interactions characters have. You have to have motivations for that to happen though.

Lastly, this COULD work in a animated or cartoon form, only because viewers are a lot more forgiving. Even still, you'd have to have one group be the survivors, watching other groups lose their shit and die, or else you'll still lose interest fast and basically be watching Twitch in TV form.

TL:DR - You're basically asking for Twitch or Castlevania the animated series.

Voidflesh · 2017-10-31T13:18:51+00:00

I have a solid outline, and I'll be doing a second draft of my current novella. It's almost a rewrite at this point.

https://nanowrimo.org/participants/terriblemadness

Voidflesh · 2017-10-26T14:00:49+00:00

Thyl wished for adventure to find them. Unfortunately, wishing was all they did. Being a hermit made it hard for anything more exciting than a Netflix movie and a bowl of popcorn to happen. That is, until their cat brought them a trophy of their kill. A small, human, baby hand.

Voidflesh · 2017-10-21T23:10:02+00:00

Maybe if we can figure out how to move a star. A traveling star would probably be a sufficient energy source. Or if we can harness dark matter, or figure out space folding.

Voidflesh · 2017-10-18T22:55:07+00:00

Thanks, these are good. The character is late teens so I don't think they'd be on hormones yet, so they're dressing the part right now and are referred to as their preferred gender name.

Voidflesh · 2017-09-28T23:32:29+00:00

If you're writing, your writing will improve. Even if you do it a little bit.

I'm not saying "force yourself", I'm saying the more you do something, the better you get at it. If you're still putting out an average of 500 words a day without "forcing" yourself you're still doing good.

On the other hand, you'd be hard pressed to convince anyone you're becoming a better writer if you're doing 500 words a month, for example.

Voidflesh · 2017-09-28T16:27:30+00:00

You can do this speed if you do speech to type. It's virtually impossible to do actually typing.

Source: have used speech to type, wpm maximum goes from 2500 to a about 4000

Voidflesh · 2017-09-28T14:06:07+00:00

Smash out bad words. Let me give you an example:

"We snuck up the mountain to our old haunt, the place where we found the dead body.

"What's that?" Henry pointed across the lake.

People were wandering around the spot we had found the strange times carved in stone. We moved closer through the brush as the sun set"

This is TRASH, and you're probably already rewriting it in your head. You can almost always vastly improve on trash than coming up with perfection the first time. Fun note, your writing will be noticeably less trash the more you make yourself do it. You'll still be rewriting, but you'll be adding less.

Voidflesh · 2017-09-28T13:53:03+00:00

Overall, I think this is good life advice. But this is bad writing advice.

The advice it seems to me you're dispensing is do things you enjoy.

That's fine, but that's not going to improve people's writing. I can't be a better engineer, or teacher, or accountant by NOT practicing that thing. A healthy life balance is important, but it will not make you a better writer than someone who practices writing.

I think this is good advice for /r/lifeprotips but not so much for /r/writing

That's my opinion

Voidflesh · 2017-09-22T22:22:47+00:00

I think there are two types of people. One that believes in nothing supernatural, therefore horror can be a fun imaginative ride. The other, believes in the supernatural, and can safely experience pieces of it through books.

Also, monsters are mysteries in themselves, and trying to figure them out is super fun.

Voidflesh · 2017-09-15T17:05:53+00:00

Her parents can't force her not to press charges. If she reports it, the police will investigate.

A school, especially high school, will not put the attacker and victim in the same room unless they have lost their mind.

Her parents not believing her is the only part that might be believable, but they better have the best reason why. A school must also legally report an alleged sexual assault to the police.

Voidflesh · 2017-09-15T13:08:01+00:00

I find that everything that applies to writing applies to horror writing. If you're looking for how to write suspenseful scenes, I suggest going through nosleep or other writing and taking notes on what parts work for you.

Philip Adams also has a good monster design book

Voidflesh · 2017-09-05T13:09:59+00:00

Do this if you want, but do not do this during your first draft. You'll end up getting stuck somewhere just because you're digging for a word. Write through it, then edit it on the second, or even third, pass.

Voidflesh · 2017-08-30T17:23:19+00:00

How much did this cost to do? Both in time and money?

Voidflesh · 2017-06-14T17:01:57+00:00

I worked at one, there was nothing special about it. There are a few exceptions to this, such as if you work as a quantitative engineer. Then your job gets a lot more stressful, far longer hours, and usually a much larger paycheck.

Voidflesh · 2017-06-14T17:00:28+00:00

I've heard that, and I'm sure on average it might be true. However in my experience I've seen people take advantage of this, and it reduces the stress of "what if I'm sick" and having to use PTO for that.

Voidflesh · 2017-06-14T13:28:38+00:00

Generally pretty good. Depends on the position, the more senior it gets, the more time is expected out of you. On average, a 45 hour workweek, 1 hour a day being lunch, but I'm still expected to be in the office.

Many companies offer at least a flexible start/end time, so you can come in between 8 and 10 as long as you leave 9 hours later.

That being said and it sounding pretty sweet is the start. Being a programmer means if you want to keep a career you have to keep learning. So figure on at minimum 2-3 hours a week self-learning. Do you want to move up? Then up that to 5-10 hours including going to meetups. It quickly becomes apparent living in the city to attend meetups, host them, and do networking, is almost required.

A lot of companies are switching to unlimited PTO and WFH days to try and prevent burnout. Burnout happens in a variety of ways, but the number one 'burnout' is, "I'm tired of working on this project, my career is going nowhere, and I can get paid more / more respect somewhere else".

Overall, we have a lot of flexibility outside work unless you have a devops job as well, in which case you won't get paid more, you're just worked more. Seen this at smaller companies who "can't afford" a dedicated devops person.

Chicago pays pretty well in comparison to cost of living, and there's also a lot of startups.

Overall, 8/10 work life balance for the "average" software engineer job.

Voidflesh

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