Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!
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Two teenagers, Niko – a brooding dropout, and Janey – an irrepressible optimist, find each other after tumbling into The Globosphere: a deceptively idyllic countryside world sealed inside a snow globe. Unsure of how they arrived (beyond shaking the snow globe inside a dusty antique shop) and even less sure of how to escape, they fixate on the lone tower haunting the horizon, hoping it holds answers.
As they set forth, the world reveals its rules. The landscape is peppered with towering speakers among the trees and fields, filling the air with ever-present jazz. At regular intervals, a cheerful, disembodied voice greets the air:
“Good Dome dear Globospherians! This marks the official commencement of Collection. Remember, close your doors and close your eyes. Don’t be scared, Don’t be un-wise. Collection is for all to thrive.”
Along the way, the teens are joined by the only two creatures who don’t seem to hate humans: Nettle, a timid plant girl exiled from home to work as a traveling merchant, and Chestikov, a sentient wooden chest with a suspiciously thick Russian accent. At great personal risk, Nettle becomes their tour guide through this unnerving landscape – navigating trees made of meat, sheep that grow grass instead of wool, and an abundance of watchful eyes. Chestikov contributes… moral support.
What begins as a mysterious, storybook journey curdles into a dystopian thriller as the teens uncover the Globosphere’s origins and realize their presence has massive, rippling consequences.
The pilot will be a ~20 minute animatic with a full musical score, sound design and voice acting!! If budget allows, we’ll upgrade to something more animated but will be prioritizing telling a good story in good time over having something super polished stuck in eternal limbo.
Stuck in the Globosphere is an animated mystery adventure series aimed at young adults. It is a long-form narrative series with a bit of “monster of the week” flavor. There’s no magic in this world – it’s all science, Babeyyy!! But this sci-fi story is far more Tolkien than Lucas: More “Shire”, less “spaceship”. This is the type of show that’ll have you just as desperate for answers as the characters! Good thing the audience has a pause and rewind button, and isn’t tethered to the confines of a script!
Imagine if Severance took place in the English countryside, had wildlife like Scavengers Reign and reveled in the weirdness of Gravity Falls. Oh, and the audience is Professor Layton. That’s the Globosphere.
If you are interested in whimsy with a dash of surrealism, a dollop of dystopia and a whole host of secrets to uncover, then this is the show for you!!
As of May 4th, this project has raised $24,000 of their $22,000 goal. This project has 29 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $10, you will get a digital wallpaper set. For a pledge of $20, you will get a sticker set. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meppity/stuck-in-the-globosphere-pilot?
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