TV Show for Gamers and Roleplayers

[Wasabi]

I submitted my idea of a TV show to a national contest and I am in the Semi-Finals.

I thought it would be funny and cool to see a show about role-players and gamers, I called it Gamers Anonymous. You can check it out at my website www.gamersanonymous.tv

The show can make the finals if you VOTE FOR IT. I am blowing the horn of Gondor, come on role-players help me win.

The LA producers didn’t get the idea at first, but after doing a live pitch they finally figured out the fantasy role-playing has a market. We had to remind them of small successes like LOTR and Harry Potter. They thought role-playing meant nurses giving spankings--LOL seriously.

Go to www.PilotProject.tv register and vote! It takes two minutes max. You need to vote for three and finalize your vote to make it count.


Show description
An average guy who's quirky daily life makes him hate his job at Softco, but playing a sword and sorcery roleplaying game with his coworkers allows heroics...in what amounts to group therapy. This guilty pleasure is an embarrassing secret in their corporate culture.

The show revolves around the parallels between the group's alter egos and their ironic real lives. For the main character, Mark, reality takes on aspects of the game as him and his friends dodge nosey co-workers, cope with social dysfunctions and help each other out in the real world but, in-game, his true feelings escape thru the actions of Ragnar Redbeard and his band of adventurers. One coincidence after another sets up impossible character driven plots proving life is stranger than fiction.

This light-hearted comedy is best imagined as Galaxy Quest meets Lord of Rings-- a fantasy come true for every closet geek in America.

 

[Umbran]

If I believed, even for a moment, that this sort of thing could make it to TV without being insulting, I might be interested. I just don't think that TV producers are mature enough to depict gamers as any thing other than caricatures.

It is the rare show that can poke fun at a thing, and yet love that thing at the same time. They will not be able to resist the temptation to poke fun, and since they don't love it as well... the outlook wouldn't be good. IMHO.

Mind you, if you can make it work, more power to you.

 

[Wasabi]

I ask for you vote then. I am a gamer and have been for going on twenty years (ouch).

Gamers are funny people. They are almost characters of themselves, the show would lose a lot not poking fun at it's self. But I remind you, Monty Python did science fantasy comedy very well. Take the Black Knight scene for example, that was funny, but it wouldnt have been if the black knight archetype was understood and over dramatized.

This show has expand possibilities, science fantasy archetypes and roll player archetypes.

Your right the chance that it has to win is small, it is even smaller if gamers do not support it now. I can't understand why the Network continue to make bad, unoriginal TV shows so I took a chance, entered a contest and now I am a little closer than I was before but with out it's base(gamers and scifi lovers) coming out to support it then I will never make it.

I do not want to see another bad reality TV show or cop show on TV, if you don't either then vote. Go to PilotProject.tv and vote for Gamers Anonymous, make sure you vote for 2 others and finalize your votes otherwise it won't count.

BTW-Vin Diesel is a roll player did you know that, there's a sterotype.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

Your right the chance that it has to win is small, it is even smaller if gamers do not support it now. I can't understand why the Network continue to make bad, unoriginal TV shows so I took a chance, entered a contest and now I am a little closer than I was before but with out it's base(gamers and scifi lovers) coming out to support it then I will never make it.

I do not want to see another bad reality TV show or cop show on TV, if you don't either then vote. Go to PilotProject.tv and vote for Gamers Anonymous, make sure you vote for 2 others and finalize your votes otherwise it won't count.

I don't think I can stomach another "lets watch college co-eds try to hook up in the jacuzzi" reality show ; and I will be voting on your show shortly.

Best of luck. I know it's tough to go up againts drunken half naked idiots in the eyes of network tv, but I'll be hoping for you

Keep us posted.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

If I believed, even for a moment, that this sort of thing could make it to TV without being insulting, I might be interested. I just don't think that TV producers are mature enough to depict gamers as any thing other than caricatures.

It is the rare show that can poke fun at a thing, and yet love that thing at the same time. They will not be able to resist the temptation to poke fun, and since they don't love it as well... the outlook wouldn't be good. IMHO.

Mind you, if you can make it work, more power to you.

I'm tempted to call this a GAMERS rip off.
If this does win. I really suggest working with the actors from GAMERS by Dead Gentleman Productions.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

By the way, i WANT your show to win. I'll try voting from home later tonight.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Office Ninja also makes me think of Greg Deans Shirt Ninja....

Man, i WANT to see.........(or act in) this show!

 

[Moe Ronalds]

If it can be pulled off, I'm all for it.

 

[Red Baron]

Sorry, Wasabi - I tried to register, but it only allows American residents...

 

[Monster Manuel]

I submitted my idea of a TV show to a national contest and I am in the Semi-Finals.

I thought it would be funny and cool to see a show about role-players and gamers, I called it Gamers Anonymous. You can check it out at my website www.gamersanonymous.tv

The show can make the finals if you VOTE FOR IT. I am blowing the horn of Gondor, come on role-players help me win.

The LA producers didn’t get the idea at first, but after doing a live pitch they finally figured out the fantasy role-playing has a market. We had to remind them of small successes like LOTR and Harry Potter. They thought role-playing meant nurses giving spankings--LOL seriously.

Go to www.PilotProject.tv register and vote! It takes two minutes max. You need to vote for three and finalize your vote to make it count.


Show description
An average guy who's quirky daily life makes him hate his job at Softco, but playing a sword and sorcery roleplaying game with his coworkers allows heroics...in what amounts to group therapy. This guilty pleasure is an embarrassing secret in their corporate culture.

The show revolves around the parallels between the group's alter egos and their ironic real lives. For the main character, Mark, reality takes on aspects of the game as him and his friends dodge nosey co-workers, cope with social dysfunctions and help each other out in the real world but, in-game, his true feelings escape thru the actions of Ragnar Redbeard and his band of adventurers. One coincidence after another sets up impossible character driven plots proving life is stranger than fiction.

This light-hearted comedy is best imagined as Galaxy Quest meets Lord of Rings-- a fantasy come true for every closet geek in America.

Funny; A creative partner and I are pitching FOX on a similar (but unique in numerous ways) idea. I guess the time is right.