Hey guys, been a while since I've been on DS, so Hello and all that.
Anyway, i'm a bit of a Demoscene fan, and i've always been a fan of farbrausch's work. In particular, fr-030: Candytron, a 64k demo(and the first to ever have vocals in a 64k), just SCREAMS out to have a running team investigate.
Before you ask the obvious:
Demo's are basically really cool flashy programs that people, or groups of perople code (usually in pure ASM!), to show off their coding skills. One of the major competition areas is the realm of the 64k demo, where people need to pack as much content into a 64 kilobyte chunk of code as possible. farbrausch was a pioneer in this field, practially inventing procedural generation. The team behind farbrausch went on to help make Spore. But I'm rambling on a bit here.
FR030:Candytron can be found here, or a 5000 times larger version can be found here on youtube, for those with Really old videocards.
Basically, my idea is thus:
A member of the runner team (probably the Deck..err.. Hacker, or otak...Grr.. Technomancer) Finds the above file in their inbox one morning. The file is a call for help from someone who is trapped in the matrix for some reason.
A musical Technomancer Sprite being experimented on by a Megacorp? A rockerchick who got hit by crash 2.0, is now a Ghost in the machine, and is sending her cries for help in song?
Help me flesh this out please, guys, I see so much potential here, but I can't quite figure it out.