HP Lovecraft hints are cool, and for the record, Lovecraft's material is by and large "public domain" now due to the copyrights expiring from being so old.

But, it's much healthier to simply make implications without direct references, except possibly incorporating one of Lovecraft's fictitious "ancient books of knowledge and mysticism."

In any case, I would say that the Iron Sky theme focuses more heavily on the scientific and historical than the metaphysical and esoteric spirit-powers that I suspect Lovecraft fans are hungering for.

Perhaps the discovery of some strange, ancient creature would be a fine part of sub-storyline, but I wouldn't feel comfortable with that creature becoming a core focus. Nothing wrong with a *primordial one* or some other thing that a Lovecraft-fan would recognize instantly in a lab tube, twitching and menacing, but all in all harmless despite its terrible potential. At most, the thing could simply be destroyed on accident or intentionally, making a big slimy mess in the lab. A fine source for genetic experiments that really don't affect the overall gameplay, but amuse the player for a bit and then move on to the next "sideshow circus act," right?

Hinting is cool. Making the hero battle tentacles or passing out constantly is not.

I love Lovecraft, and if you're going to do an adventure game, that's where i'd turn to. The oldie and goodie Shadow of the Comet is one of my non-Sierra or Lucasarts favorites.

Jani, hinting at things is perhaps okay? As long as nothing is directly spoken about or shown?

I agree Lovecraft should be referred to, but do not screw up and bring the ancients to the game. The 'creatures from beyond' -approach instantly kills any inmersion that a semieralistic setting can have.

Fighting nazis with some space tech is plenty enough. Don't mess it up with aliens or creatures that don't belong in the Iron Sky movie's world..

See Indiana Jones - as long as he fights nazis, it's cool. When you get space aliens, it falls apart like a house of cards.. The religious overnatural things fit in the movie's world, aliens do not.

Mixing Cthulhu stuffs with Hyperborean/Atlantean stuffs will work perfectly. Specially when you know that Lovecraft was inspired by all kind of ancient legends and lore (including Hyperborean legends) to create his Great Old Ones mythology.

About "At the Mountains Of Madness" there's really freaky stuffs to use.
Exemple: scientists nazis could discover ancient life forms in ice caves (the Mi-go) and their weird technology like brain-cylinders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi-go

Thirding this! It also ties in with the other shot about Hyperborean/Atlantean stuff.

Lovecraft and the Nazis' superstitions sound like a very good match.

Good idea!

Though the Flugscheibe's theoretical history can be traced back to wing-design and early helicopters, once anti-g was discovered they would have packed anything they can on their craft.

Seeing how they were logistically hurting in the late 40's, they would have probably tried converting existing tanks.

However they might have encountered stability issues, and decided to instead strip down those old technologies and re-adapt them to the disc-design.

There should at least be some technical notes on this, along with some salvaged hulls, and at most an experimental anti-g tank.

Could these be the 'Polar People' that the SAS Officer mentions in his report?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread362367/pg1

What might tie in with the setting would be experiments to make soldiers more resistant to cold.

(But, as always, we have to remember this is a VERY sensitive area because the real Nazis really did do such experiments in various camps. Anything in the game about this topic would have to distance itself clearly from those real experiments.)

The Lebensborn reference may be a bit touchy, but brainless muscle-monsters being locked away for further study (is that Dr. Engel's laughter I hear in the background?) sound like an unending source of experimental fun! ^^'

Lovely reference to Norse mythology, which of course would be very dear to the nazis!

Sounds very interesting, and it taps into the conspiracy theories surrounding recent tsunamis and earthquakes.

@Matti: What about a control scheme like in Canabalt?

http://www.canabalt.com

-Similar scheme as in DKC1 (SNES) mine level.

The vehicle follows a predetermined route, but the player has to react (avoid obstacles, brake, and maybe shoot).

Then again, this could probably accomplished better with mine-carts or a bobsled.

Matti, just a story idea off the top of my head: maybe the character thinks they can make an easy getaway from the base with the snowmobile, but an unavoidable event means they just crash it into a wall after a couple of metres.

Sort of a comedy moment, if you see what I mean... The glimmer of hope, the cool-looking prototype, followed by the unexpectedly poor but non-deadly outcome.)

Indeed! There's always room for schematics in those engineers' laboratories!

As to a prototype in a collapsed ice-tunnel... that makes me think of Indiana Jones and the Fates of Atlantis, when Indy drove the excavator machine in the ring around the city. 8P

Well then, how about a partially constructed prototype, schematics, or a dramatic chase through a collapsing ice-tunnel ;)

That first one would be made of win and awesome. Too bad there aren't any outside sequences =/

can't the nazi's have one of these, plant a dora gun inside and it silently moves to a bombing location, maybe aimed by a 1940's z3 computer

When you look at the images in the article it actually seems plausible!

Wow, that's one big ship