Another entry in this slight backtrack — but let’s be honest, I’m probably the only one left who has any idea what order we’re going in. In any case, here’s post #480 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

College Street Service Station (Circle K)

851 North Yale Street

This independent neighborhood service station (shown with Circle K branding in the game) featured a modest ground layout and open pump setup, providing automotive care, mechanical repairs, and routine refueling for residents within the expanding Chinatown district.

More info:

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Continuing the out-of-order non-landmark entries: post #479 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Civic Center Hill Street Lot

134–136 South Hill Street

Operated under the Walt’s Auto Parks franchise network, this compact asphalt-paved surface lot optimized limited street frontage. Bounded by standard barriers, the facility features an open view of a subterranean concrete transit ramp cutting along its southern boundary line.

More info:

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Photograph my cousin Michael and me took of actress/filmmaker Megan Tremethick with a distinctly noir glamour sensibility!

Up front: it's AI generated, and I say so on every video. If that's a dealbreaker, I get it.

I make radio mysteries based on real crimes. The names and details are changed, and each one is told like an old broadcast: Holmes in the real era of each case, post-war Vienna, Moscow, a modern New York and Los Angeles. Black-and-white art, a cast that talks over each other, music that stays out of the way.

It started as slop. The first uploads, back in July, had flat voices, plots that repeated, words cut off mid-sentence. I wanted it to be good, so since then it's been every day, weekends too: I listen, write down what's wrong, we fix it, I listen again. I've rewritten whole stories from scratch and pulled the old versions. The AI does the heavy lifting, but it has no taste. That part is me.

The one thing I can't get the AI to tell me is what makes noir feel like noir. It isn't the trench coat. So:

1. What do AI attempts at noir (or just lazy ones) usually get wrong for you?

2. Which old radio noir should I be studying? I know the obvious ones (Johnny Dollar, Suspense, Dragnet). What's the one people forget?

3. If you could pick the next city for a noir series, which would it be?

If you want to hear where it is now, the whole archive is one playlist that updates itself, newest first: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaEfFa7GFcw0

So I have been experimenting with Voice clones and AI and have built a Noir detective radio drama. I’m on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and you can also listen in at EndlessNoir.com
I created a whole fictional city of Calloway Bay. You have some recurring characters like the detective , dale his secretary, Flynn of the chronicle and a few more plus a handful of walk on and extra roles just like a late 1930’s to mid 1940’s radio drama.
It’s still a work in progress and I was mostly curious about learning how writers rooms from the early days of radio did their thing. I just had a breakthrough with the voices that will be posted on episode 68. I drop one “case” a week on Mondays.
I would love to hear what you think. You can hear the improvements if you listen to episode 1 and then the recent episode 58.

great comic very noir

Anybody wants to play a noir game? We can make a game of our own in chats. Or does a thing like this already exists?

Anyways, I think some roles for stake would be detective, police investigator, femme fatales, rookie cop, dock worker, and butler.

Thank you

Gloria Grahame publicity for Crossfire (1947).

Source https://bsky.app/profile/romanbone.bsky.social/post/3mxjrkzwks22s

Morning Will Wait is a cinematic, story-driven noir game set in New York in 1968.

The playable prologue begins small: Mickey Cross, 54, nearing retirement, alone in a hotel bathroom at 2:37 in the morning. He is tired, isolated, drunk, and carrying the weight of a case he walked away from years ago — a case tied to the death of his older brother.

From there, the story is designed to expand into a seven-part narrative following Mickey as he is pulled back toward something he never really escaped.

We chose the 1968 New York sanitation strike because we didn't want the city to simply be a noir backdrop. During those days, garbage piled up across the streets while fires, crime, police activity and unrest pushed parts of New York toward chaos. In the game, that pressure becomes part of the story itself: the city is beginning to break down at the same time Mickey is being forced to confront everything he has kept buried.

The prologue is the only playable part right now. We’re a small team of four, and it took us around six months to make. We built it as both the opening of the story and a proof of concept and execution for the larger game — its visual language, writing, atmosphere, environments, characters and cinematic direction.

It is free to play in the browser or on Windows:

https://studiolokal.itch.io/morningwillwait

If you play it, we’d genuinely appreciate hearing what you think. Any feedback, reactions, or thoughts are welcome.

And if you'd ever like to talk to us about the game for any reason, you can reach us at [info@studiolokal.co](mailto:info@studiolokal.co).

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