ErikH2000 wrote:
Illusionist wrote:
I re-listened to it - excellent.t
Reminds me of the good sci-fi of the 80s
thoughtful and underrated
Late reply, sorry...
Back in the 90s, there was a CD-ROM boom that doesn't get remembered fondly enough. We all got a bit excited about how much stuff could go onto a shiny CD. Some people clearly abused the format by dumping anything plausibly sellable on them. There were some terrible games like choose-your-own-adventure movies with pathetic video. But we also got some good stuff. Myst, for example. And collections of "zine" content that would just simply be handled with websites in the Broadband Age.
The latter, I was particularly enamored with. I'd buy certain print magazines and find CDs glued to the cover that contained digital bits that complemented the magazine. I figured we'd try our hand at being a similar curator. We were fairly hooked into the indie scene in those days, so Mike and I both knew other devs with demos. I also loved audio drama, and listened to hours of it every week. I still do like AD, though I'm not currently as avid. To me, AD was just a sister scene to indie game development, so I tried making deals to include programs I liked on our CaravelNet discs.
Scifi audio-drama is an interesting genre. On a three digit budget and with the right people involved, it can sound as good as a movie. This Pointless Thing Called Life was like that. It had that polish and an interesting humorous story that reminded me of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. So I was happy to convince Alan to let us carry the program on our CaravelNet discs.
Anyhow, long-winded memories. I better stop for now.
-Erik
Thank you, I've listened to the story, and it reminded me of the best sci-fi stories I was reading as a kid, it is indeed a relic of the past. Not much stuff like that is happening anymore and it's a serious shame, because this story was very thought-provoking, but then again, most of the sci-fi stories are very thought-provoking in regards to the humanist questions and problems.
Thank you for answering my question. If anyone can listen to the story, but didn't do it now, halloween is the right time. I love how one of the characters in the story questions the motives of the experts, and scientists. Money indeed rules the world, and more importantly, the ethics
I loved the 90s boom, because when I bought Jazz JAckrabbit, I also got demos for other games for free. Good times.
You shouldn't had stopped, but I understand.
Sci-fi is extremely underrated as a genre, and it never receives the credit it deserves. People love X-Men, Aliens, and Matrix, but it all started as a sci-fi story and people refuse to acknowledge that. Some of the greatest entertainment and technology started as a sci-fi story. It all starts with imagination, and sci-fi genre provokes that. But most people dismiss sci-fi as being sci-fi. Well it's sci-fi, unless someone makes it real, and that's the point! Sci-fi was always treated as a literature for nerds, and to this day, I don't understand why.
Sad, but thank you for that collab. I googled more about the story, and it's really obscure, so I'm happy that I could listen to it in its entirety. I wish I had enough brain to encourage people enough to touch books, especially sci-fi. So many literature gems are being lost and nobody is willing to pick them up.... Eh
[Last edited by Illusionist at 11-01-2020 04:51 PM]