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BEYOND MORP: THE MOVIE: THE GAME — concept (second title, shares engine + editor)
The meta-parody FMV game. Source chain (all real, on ultra):
Beyond Morp (GAMES/beyondmorp) — Zork-flavoured text adventure, static JS+JSON →
MorpQuest: Record Store Day (morpquest) — Sierra-AGI graphical adaptation, 14 EGA
rooms, cat-food run, Uncle's list, the BeckyWall (door blocked by Taylor Swift
superfans), the white label, "Morp is not cruel; Morp is accurate" →
The Morping Horror (morpinghorror, themorpinghorror) — the sequel. It sucked. Canon.
This game is: the game of the movie of the book of the game. An FMV QTE adaptation of a (nonexistent, big-budget, wildly unfaithful) Hollywood movie of Beyond Morp. The comedy engine is fidelity-rage:
- Barry (comic-book-guy archetype, aggrieved superfan) is IN the game — a picture-in-picture heckler who pauses the action to complain: "In the ORIGINAL, the alley was called Scenic Rim and it was TEXT. This is an insult." Barry's interruptions are themselves QTEs (input to un-pause before he finishes a rant = bonus; fail = he reads the original room description aloud in full while you die).
- Canon-error deaths: some hazards kill you because the movie got it wrong —
the vine to the roof ("Above the Rim") snaps because "in the game it was load-
bearing dialogue"; death card cites the source file (
rooms/room6.json) like a wronged wiki citation. - The movie "improved" things: Morp is now a CGI explosion-god voiced by a celeb; the cat-food run is a car chase (Room 0: Your Car → actual FMV car chase); the BeckyWall is a slow-mo crowd-surf setpiece; the white label is a glowing MacGuffin in a briefcase.
- Sequel-bait stinger: post-credits trailer for THE MORPING HORROR 2: MORP HARDER — deliberately awful, 1 clip, everyone agrees it looks worse than the game of the book of the movie, which was good, kinda.
- Structure: the 14 MorpQuest rooms ARE the level list (map already drawn in
morpquest/DESIGN.md); each room gets the "$200M adaptation" treatment. Uncle's list = the score system (items ticked off). Five words, one white label.
Production: identical pipeline to Record Store Guy — same engine, same look system (cel80s canonical; a "morpinghorror" bonus look = gritty 2000s horror-reboot grade), same Flow credit discipline. Built as a second project in the editor (see EDITOR.md); its blocks.json characters (Guy-with-list, Barry, Morp, Becky the superfan chief, the cat) and 14 location blocks get seeded from the morpquest room JSONs — the adaptation is procedurally unfaithful: we literally feed the faithful data in and prompt the movie-version out.
Status: concept only. Record Store Guy ships first; this reuses everything RSG proves.