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Hello everyone,
For anyone who is interested, I have written a novel about the death of the adventure game – or, more accurately, about the hostile takeover of one of the world’s most popular computer gaming company in the mid 90s. It will be published this Fall, but in the meantime I will be serializing the first third to a half of it, one chapter every week, at http://www.gamequestnovel.com. I hope you’ll check it out. The first chapter is up now and so far I’ve gotten great feedback.
While Game Quest is obviously inspired by a lot of crazy things that went on at that time of history (the death of the adventure game, the rise of the Internet, 1st person action shooters, girl-gaming, etc…) it’s not intended to represent any of those institutions, characters or events as they really happened. I saw a good backdrop for a story and wanted to tell that story without reality (which can be boring) getting in the way, while still paying tribute to a fascinating & inspiring part of gaming history.
I am a VERY long time Sierra and adventure game fan. When I was young I wanted to work at Sierra, but seeing as they probably didn’t hire 12 year olds from other countries, I turned my creative outlets to writing. I think writing this book has helped satiate that desire.
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Hello everyone,
For anyone who is interested, I have written a novel about the death of the adventure game – or, more accurately, about the hostile takeover of one of the world’s most popular computer gaming company in the mid 90s. It will be published this Fall, but in the meantime I will be serializing the first third to a half of it, one chapter every week, at http://www.gamequestnovel.com. I hope you’ll check it out. The first chapter is up now and so far I’ve gotten great feedback.
While Game Quest is obviously inspired by a lot of crazy things that went on at that time of history (the death of the adventure game, the rise of the Internet, 1st person action shooters, girl-gaming, etc…) it’s not intended to represent any of those institutions, characters or events as they really happened. I saw a good backdrop for a story and wanted to tell that story without reality (which can be boring) getting in the way, while still paying tribute to a fascinating & inspiring part of gaming history.
I am a VERY long time Sierra and adventure game fan. When I was young I wanted to work at Sierra, but seeing as they probably didn’t hire 12 year olds from other countries, I turned my creative outlets to writing. I think writing this book has helped satiate that desire.
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Leopold:
You may want to consider using my system as part of the promotion of your book – http://www.talkspot.com
Here’s what I did to promote my book ( http://www.kensbook.com ): I set up a mailing list, and sent out each day roughly a page of text. The mailing list grew with each day to several thousand people. When the book was released, I have a large audience of people already waiting to buy the book.
-Ken W
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Ken,
The talkspot site is great. I set up a site there, but haven’t had a chance to muck around too much yet. I like the fact that it takes no programming knowledge. I think that’s really missing on the Net lately, since it was founded on the idea of free sharing of information and Tim Berners Lee’s initial idea for the WWW that everyone should be able to design a web page. The Internet has gotten a lot trickier since, but talkspot looks like a good place for reinforcing that original idea.
I’m working on putting together a links list for gamequestnovel.com that will link readers to all sorts of sites related to the themes/settings/events in Game Quest. I’m going to put in a link for sierragamers. If you’d like, I could provide a link to talkspot – and also mention your book. Let me know. I had a quick read through the sample chapters and it looks great. Made me laugh. I’m moving across the country in a week or so, but I think I’ll order it when I get more settled.
The page a day via email idea is great. I’m all set up for once a week at this point, so I think I’ll stick to that for now, but I’ll definitely keep that in mind for the future. I’ve got a mail list, but it takes time to build that up…particularly with people so wary of spam…
Thanks so much for the advice! It was a real pleasure to hear from you.
Leopold
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