Molly: The Neuromancer inspired key set. Any Thoughts?

[SOLOM]

This is black with silver like Molly's eyes, blades (Molly's favorite tool), pistol, SOME NAMES AND PLACES FROM THE BOOK, you might recognize them if you've read it. I you haven't read the book, get on it!

[exitfire401]

Fixed the image size so that it fit the post.

[SOLOM]

Thanks

[geniekid]

Am I the only one who still can't see the image?

[exitfire401]

Am I the only one who still can't see the image?

Seems to be an issue with the image host. Getting nothing but timeouts on here and on his reddit post.

[SOLOM]

One of these has to work.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9fYHaFZdStHWkY2YnptVE9OcjA/edit?usp=sharing

http://www.pimpmykeyboard.com/keyboard-forums/topic/molly-inspired-by-neuromancer/

https://s3.amazonaws.com/TWFiles/7830/p42211.tf_B681303D-0F21-4FD9-08CFB3E45C413155.MOLLY.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJC7QSMZDSELEZRIQ&Expires=1406052651&Signature=Iy40wvyCt9cjZ5EEk%2Fe6LylYh4c%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3D%22MOLLY%2Ejpg%22

[rowdy]

Home should be the Sprawl

[admiralvorian]

I think a neuromancer-themed keycap set has the potential to be awesome, however I don't think this is the way I'd go about it.

Molly doesn't use a cartridge firearm, she uses a flechette gun
Molly also doesn't use a kabar, she has blades under her fingernails
random nouns for the nav cluster don't make sense to me.. and for other keys (dex for tab?)
this is otherwise just a white on black set with some novelty keys



edit: also a neuromancer set is pretty much required to have a MAX REVERSE key

[rowdy]

And an ICE key!

[SOLOM]

Good points! Back to the drawing board. I'll post a renewed version soon.

[hashbaz]

I love the idea of a Neuromancer-inspired set, but yeah this doesn't really speak to me. (yet!)  Keep going, I'll be on board if we can come up with something cool.

[SOLOM]

COUPLE TWEAKS.

1. I know Molly had blades under her nails. But remember Linda was stabbed to death in an arena with knife fighter?
2. A flechette pistol, A flechette is a round that can be shot from many types of guns so yes the cartridge weapon works.
3. We got pills, beta , and blue 9 cuz Case loved his drugs.
4. we got ninja stars cuz Case always wished he had chrome ninja stars.
5. MAX REVERSE, nuff said there.
6. locales from the book/upcoming movie, rumors.
7. the space bar is "Freeside" cuz that just seems to make sense.
8. black for molly, silver left and right cuz of her awesome ocular implants, blood red cuz she's a killa

Any thoughts?

[SOLOM]

Update kanji ginger keys for the windows button.

[SOLOM]

[SOLOM]

Now with blue nine.

[ChillyVanilly]

“The Matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,' said the voice-over, 'in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks.' On the Sony, a two-dimensional space war faded behind a forest of mathematically generated ferns, demonstrating the spatial possibilities of logarithmic spirals; cold blue military footage burned through, lab animals wired into test systems, helmets feeding into fire control circuits of tanks and war planes. 'Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...” 

“All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void...”

“And in the bloodlit dark behind his eyes, silver phosphenes boiled in from the edge of space, hypnagogic images jerking past like a film compiled of random frames. Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information.”

“And the Flatline aligned the nose of Kuang's sting with the center of the dark below. And dove. Case's sensory input warped with their velocity. His mouth filled with an aching taste of blue. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sounds of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine spines. The spines split, bisected, split again, exponential growth under the dome of the Tessier-Ashpool ice.”

- https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/909457-neuromancer

There's a lot of visual imagery in the book, but I don't think this concept matches it.
 
edit: these descriptions of cyberspace are too complex to approach, but what would the character's hardware look like? What would make you feel like a decker jacking in? Symbol novelty keys are cool, but they are more like references to the book rather than a holistic presentation that evokes something stronger.

[Harrowed]

The problem is that if I saw this set somewhere I definitely wouldn't recognize it as Neuromancer set although I've read the book several times. The Neuromancer just doesn't have that strong visual symbols or illustration linked to it.

[rowdy]

The problem is that if I saw this set somewhere I definitely wouldn't recognize it as Neuromancer set although I've read the book several times. The Neuromancer just doesn't have that strong visual symbols or illustration linked to it.

Might be different if there was a movie, with strong visual themes.

Kinda like the Matrix - there are symbols that most people would recognise from that that you wouldn't get from just reading a book.

[admiralvorian]

Exactly. Im thinking of a cyberpunk keycap set. SA profile, old school font, anyone fo color ideas? It could be original beige or some crazy color scheme or both.

[SOLOM]

I guess the only visual reference would be Jonny mnemonic and the matrix. the matrix has been done to death. JM is a Gibson story. Back to the drawing board. Thanks for the input everybody. I want to make this happen.

I heard that Liam Neeson is lasted for Armitage in the proposed movie.