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Poll - Serum color
🕑 Added 2025-02-09 14:31:01 +0000 UTCAlright, so I'm curious to know how you guys feel about this one.
As you can see, in V1.0 of the game, the serum has this green tint. I went with it because it seemed natural to me, but maybe it shouldn't?
Assuming I follow last week's poll (and I intend to), Alex is the one making the serum and it's DNA-based, as it made from animal DNA, for example. Maybe other things, I'll iron this out later.
Knowing that I'm also likely to keep the notion of the serum having a bit of a Bane-like side-effect with it temporarily tints the drinker's eyes and makes their veins glowing during FMG, I might as well consider carefully if I should keep this green color or not.
So here are options I cooked-up:
• CLEAR LIQUID : let's not get crazy. The serum would look almost like water... but it definitely wouldn't be water! But maybe it's a bit boring for a fiction?
• LIME-GREEN : my first choice, as it reminded me of Bane's 'Venom' formula / 'Titan' formula from the Batman Arkham game series, so I guess I unconsciously associated that color with muscle-growth.
• BLOOD RED : Eh, you know what, if the serum is DNA-based, it could make sense for the serum to have a deep red color...
• PURPLE : You know how the Hulk always has purple pants, and how the Green Goblin usually wears purple clothes (or has a purple glider) to go with his green scally costume/skin? Point is, green and purple are complementary colors, so if I'm gonna propose green, I might as well propose purple too!
• PINK : Eeeeh, it may be cheesy, but pink evocates love... maybe there's a thing to play with, here.
• TEAL : Looks a bit like super/magical water, doesn't it?
• GOLD : Ok, let's be honest, I want to say it's "gold-colored", but it also totally looks like it's "piss-colored", soooo... there's that.
• BRIGHT ORANGE : Ok, now this one, I think there's something cool to do! Have you seen Iron-Man 3, the one with AIM and the Extremis thing that turned people into fire-breathing super-healing crazy people, and you'd see the core of their body light up like there was a fire burning inside them? That could be a thing I could do during the FMG sequence, like the serum causes the body to burn up to cause muscle-growth?
Do you have other ideas? You can suggest them in the comments.
Comments
Gobbo
Uh, good shout! Hadn't thought about it, but it could have a bit of a compound-color, and it could maybe look like an opaque goo. Something a bit like black oil could work. Although, since the point of the exercise was to define a color that would show in her eyes and veins during FMG, I think black would look weird. "Black & White" as in "desaturated / colorless", I think, would be too close to the Clear Liquid option. However, maybe next week, I'll do a part 2, experimenting with compounding the winning colors! Like green & purple mixed in one... but how would that look in the eyes and veins?... so maybe not. We'll see!
PilotPete
Black and White
