Mister Bubbles Mission Briefing (Paranoia)

I created this animation based on the sample mission "Mister Bubbles" from the pen-and-paper role-playing game "Paranoia" (formerly "Paranoia XP") It was an experiment to see how animation could enhance the role-playing game experience, and because I had always wanted to see one of the mission briefings 'come to life'.

In this futuristic world all the characters have personal computers called 'PDC's. This animation simulated what a briefing transmitted to the PDC might look like and was designed with simplistic graphics to play on an actual mobile device to simulate the experience.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• paranoia
• xp
• rpg
• pen
• paper
• mission
• brief
• briefing
• pdc
• mister
• bubbles
• friend
• computer
• roleplaying
• game

[Sammichez1]

I hope you don't mind if I use this, or at least some ideas from it...

[Kumeelyun]

@Sammichez1 I don't mind at all. What are you planning?

[IrreverentFool]

I would love to see more of these.

[Kumeelyun]

@IrreverentFool I would like to as well. I know some people involved with Paranoia XP are aware of this cartoon, but I have yet to hear back from anyone about doing more.

[Kabooloo]

What did you use to make this and how hard was it to make?

[Kumeelyun]

@Kabooloo I used Flash. It was pretty easy to make this once I planned out how to adapt the mission briefing from the Paranoia XP book. The graphics and animation are simple overall.

[Beatnuki]

Praise The Computer for this entertaining and informative briefing! My daycycle is filled with mirth thanks to Friend Computer's diligent delivery of details!

[MrBugbear]

The computer is your best friend, it wants you to be happy, not being happy is punishable by death

[darthpanda32]

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaake Mooooooooooooooooooooar!

[RedwoodTheElf]

I think GLADos from Portal owes quite a bit of her personality to Friend Computer!

[RichardMNixon]

This is great. I was trying to decide between running Mr. Bubbles or Stealth Train for some first time players, this settles it. Should help them figure out the setting.

[nifelan]

This is really well done and a nice source of inspiration too :)

[Var1er]

Great video, I might use it in a future mission, but I'd have to make a scenario around it.(or at least that includes it.)

[jasonjlaw]

Reminded me a lot of Futurama.

[Gemini597]

nice.

[AngelSwordAF]

Watching this on my iPod touch is kinda freaky D:

[enderwigginx]

Yes!

I've been looking for this animation (off and on) for ages since the site went down. Glad to see it again, very well done btw.

[Loser85]

@ExoFox123 It a table top rpg