I want to see this turn into the best thing ever.
How familiar are you with Lovecraft and his works? It'd be great to see references to both stories and actual abominations.
Thanks Darkovika! I'm pretty familiar with Lovecraft, I've read just a few of his stories, but it's because I'm a fan of his work that I'm probably not going to do anything more than elude to his writing through words/phrases like "eldritch" and "cosmic horror". It's clear, I think, where a good deal of my inspiration is coming from, but at their heart Lovecraft's stories were more about the bigger and completely unknowable forces in the universe. A fact, contained within a book, that when read drives the reader insane with the truth of it, that sort of thing.
My game is... far sillier than that! So not only am I really not going anywhere near that heavier tone, the cosmic monsters in the game are more of the they-might-eat-you sort than the impenetrable beings of real Lovecraftian horror.
So I'm paying some tribute to Lovecraft, yes, but I'm also keeping at arm's length because of these fairly major differences.