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The B-Movie Generator - latest results

OK it's taking a lot of time (I don't predict completion until sometime late October), but it is chugging along VERY well, and is pretty educational.  I present - the latest results from my B-movie generator!

• Avalanche!
• Battle Beyond Planet X
• Beyond Evil
• Blackout!
• Death Island
• Horror Mountain
• Joan of Arc in Paris
• King Arthur Unchained
• Mission: Suffering
• The Adventures of Alicia Smith
• The Ant-Men
• The Apes
• The Armless Monsters
• The Bloody Adventures of the Ape-Person
• The Dinosaur-Women from The Future
• The Mission
• The Moscow Suffering
• The Terrible Bonnie Smith
• The Transparent Man
• War Beyond Uranus

What's educational is several things:

• Some movie titles follow VERY predictable patterns.
• Some movie titles that have been mercilessly mocked DO NOT follow common patterns, but because they've been parodied, people think they do.
• There are some common words in b-movie titles - "Black", "Blood", "Bikini", etc.  Face it, some words get attention.  I could SEE a 60's horror film titled "Black Blood Bikini" come to think of it . . .

Will this be used for a contest?  At some point in the future, yes.  It's too cool not to try . . .

- Steve

Next generator, contests, more

So what's the next generator?

Well, I've been kicking around some updates to others, but what has me intrigued is the idea of a "genre fusion" class generator - to make things for sci-fi fantasy, wester-style sci-fi, etc.  Fusion genres seem to be popular, and I figure it'd also be inspiring to get class ideas like "Sagebrush Mage", "Computer Priest" and "Rune Engineer."  I've got a few notes and will see where this'll take me.

I'm also thinking it may be time in the next six-nine months to do another class-based contest, perhaps with this generator - the character-driven nature of the last contest makes me think I should do more contests where people develop characters deeply.

- Steve, aka X