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