HOW DO YOU GUYS COME UP WITH WITTY QUOTES?

Watching lots and lots of House.

author=Tyranos link=topic=3251.msg65537#msg65537 date=1236482628

author=S. F. LaValle link=topic=3251.msg65224#msg65224 date=1236310714
Watching lots and lots of House.

I tried that. The damn thing didn't make a move all day.

That is a really bad pun. :/

Not sure. I feel differently than a lot of people on this topic- I don't think you should just go watch a bunch of movies and TV and then get inspired to write witty banter. If you're going to do a bunch of Airplane and House jokes, I'm probably going to be bored. But if you're going to watch these shows and try to actively learn the tropes and styles that make the jokes effective, maybe that will work... but you still have to transfer these jokes to a different medium entirely. A visual joke from Airplane like the Girl Scout brawl may not translate well to a 2D video game played on a computer.

A sense of humor can be developed, but I don't think you can prescribe a method to do it, and I think it relies a bit on an initial ability or attitude. If anything, just follow the age-old adage of "write what you know." For amateur games, I think the most funny ones are community games like Erave's Easy Mac series or maybe absurd games like The Most Stupidest Game Ever (Re-Duh) (maybe).

More often, I find myself writing witty banter between random NPCs not relevant to the story; I like writing silly stuff for them because of the fact that they're not so relevant, but I follow basic rules like good spelling and punctuation, and try to write 'smart' humor (and I enjoy limited success, I think.) For more important characters, all humor's got to be tied to either situations relevant to the main plot or to the characters' own personalities, opinions, and reactions. Anyways, all of this is the best description I can give for how I would create witty quotes...

Stupidest Game Ever was a funny game, however half of the dialogue was taken from Monty Python. Still I remember that being on the few rm2k games I played through multiple times. Easy Mac? Hardly funny.


Just be yourself... be natural... use ellipses...

Meh. My games get quoted in people's sigs.

author=AznChipmunk link=topic=3251.msg67067#msg67067 date=1237511708
real tip: don't use humor in a game; it generally always turns out shitty, unless you really know comedy, which most people don't.

What about comic relief?

^-- That one didn't really get it across.

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID

My memory is hazy (I was smoking a lot of reefer during that time in my life) but I vaguely recall coming up with either one or both of the slogans "Your mom is a hero." and/or "I am a fucking hero."

"I am a fucking hero." was Legion's.

(And I was talking about Liberty's sig this whole time, btw)