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By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:37:28 +0000

TheBard: Actually, months later, I find the piece you were asking about:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071213053728/http://www.deusex-machina.com/cassandra-project/savepoint.asp

Terribly overwritten, especially in the opening, and clearly hammered up in a lunch-hour and lobbed on a forum, but I still like the cut of its jib near the end.

It was, basically, Cassandra’s overall plot’s themes in a short story.

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By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:30:12 +0000

We are so meta.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:24:10 +0000

HAH!

[Taped conversation of David Kohl, Freelance Journalist specialising in videogames to unknown parties on the subject of the previous night out.]

I believe I recognize that name :P

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:16:04 +0000

TheBard: Ah, that one. You know, I’m not sure I ever put that on the site – it was kind of a thing I knocked off for a forum “thing”. I don’t even know if I had a copy of it somewhere. It’ll be a shame if I don’t, as I quite liked it. Hell, if you can find it again, I’d appreciate it if you forward me the link.

(It was kind of a compressed version of the full Cassandra narrative – as in the character blowing up the server who was storing the game they were in)

Other Cassandra stories are still on Archive.org. It’s more little character pieces to do with the game. See here for the archive.org
http://web.archive.org/web/20070705020258/www.deusex-machina.com/cassandra-project/recon-mission1-diaries.asp

And yes – I do a bit of fiction. I have a second career as a writer of comics.
http://www.phonogramcomic.com/blog/
Is the site of my Image comic, and what I’m probably most known for.

bustedwonder.com
Is a webcomic I did with a friend.

And there’s other stuff out there I’ve done – some work for hire stuff for Marvel. I’ve a Warhammer comic coming out in a few weeks too. And a Starcraft thing. And other bits and bobs.

Axonn: Thanks!

By: Axonn Echysttas

Axonn Echysttas — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:15:44 +0000

Mistake in article, correct is “price” ::- ).

holder’s lawyers, but a terrible lack of imagination comes with such a priec.

By: TheBard

TheBard — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:00:43 +0000

I only remember the one where in the end, some server systems get switched off, ending the story in a peculiar way. I somehow stumbled over the story through Google and never actually found it linked in the site navigation. So, if there are others, I never read them.

That said, if there ARE others, I would LOVE to read them.

And big kudos for your work. Did you do any other fiction writing?

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:55:02 +0000

Which one? There were a few little bits and pieces I did.

By: TheBard

TheBard — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:53:25 +0000

Wow great! The Cassandra Project. I actually sent the URL to nearly everyone I knew. I loved the style, the way the dev team adressed the world out there. And there was this very nice short story somewhere on the page, which gave everything a great mood.

Is this short story still available somewhere? I’d love to read it again.

By: trioptimum

trioptimum — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:15:45 +0000

This is a good opportunity for a confession…

I responded to the Cassandra Project’s original call for mappers 7 years ago. I had no experience mapping, but was upfront about it. I had tons of free time at university, and wanted to volunteer some of it for something cool. As mentioned in the article, Kieron did indeed ask for me to build something and send it to him as a tryout — a Dartmoor cottage, if I remember. Which I promised to him in several increasingly reassuring emails. And which I never sent.

Though it doesn’t excuse me from being an inconsiderate time-waster, the truth was that I did in fact spend many, many hours doing the task to completion, but was so ashamed of the unbelievable crapness of the result that I thought it better to feign disappearance than send it to Kieron.

I’ve genuinely felt guilty about this for about 7 years. And now, buried in the quiet end of a four-day-old thread, I share it with you, dear reader.

By: Crispy

Crispy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:15:50 +0000

The NightFall post-mortem tells a similar tale.

And I may as well throw in a shameless plug of something I wrote along the lines of the ‘release early, update often’ mantra. I’ll admit the article pulls examples primarily from MP mods because I play more of them, they tend to get finished more often than SP and they are more popular, making them a useful showcase for readers. There is a short section on single-player releases explaining how I think the episodic route can be made to work well (anchoring gameplay and story features to release modules).