by Ice Cream Jonsey » Wed Jun 26, 2002 11:08 am
I've, well, got a story to tell and at the end of it you can't help but come to the conclusion that I am a jackass.
A few years ago I had the bright idea to send a message to Annoyotron's and Burning Down The House's Ben Parrish regarding how cool it would be if we put the entire "Pinback's Web Central" (the original one, mind you) in Inform so that people could read it on their Palm Pilots and whatnot. PWC was a fantastic site that also featured some great commentary from Larry "Clash" Trask and that one woman there. I think her name was Elizabeth. Many of Ben's "Introductions" still crack me up to this day, and that's after having read them dozens of times.
Anyway, after telling Ben I would do that (place the website into a sort of CYOA Inform menu) I started it, got side-tracked, and eventually lost all the files on my HD during the crash of 2001.
So, like a jackass (as previously noted) I piped up and said I'd help him get BDTH complete as well. I have done exactly two objects on this. I feel terrible. Terrible for betraying his trust, the trust of his players, and the HUGO trust that bonds us authors as something more than brothers, but something quite less you understand than inceteous brothers.
I mean, what kind of jerk says, when a game has been released, "Hey, I'll help add that ending."? Of course people are waiting for me to get my butt in gear! Of course they are!
In my defense I might offer up some mealy-mouthed comment like how I have been working on a new graphical IF game that I think people would like and how that, simultaneously, I have been trying to get a very, very short Hugo game ready for the fall comp because I am dead set against the, in my opinion, best computer language ever written not being represented in an appropriate comp. But that defense is quickly terminated because there's been MORE than enough time to help my friend out and still go so slowly on those other games.
I am a worm of the lowest order. I mean that. Ben was going to write all the text for this thing and I just had to give him a helpful nudge with laying down the objects. Instead, I gave him a nudge off a very tall building, and I am wracked with shame.
Though BDTH is a game about blowing up a house, *I* deserve to be blown up much more.
(And with that being said, I coded up another object out of guilt before hitting "send." Hey, progress!!!!)
I've, well, got a story to tell and at the end of it you can't help but come to the conclusion that I am a jackass.
A few years ago I had the bright idea to send a message to [i]Annoyotron[/i]'s and [i]Burning Down The House[/i]'s Ben Parrish regarding how cool it would be if we put the entire "Pinback's Web Central" (the original one, mind you) in Inform so that people could read it on their Palm Pilots and whatnot. PWC was a fantastic site that also featured some great commentary from Larry "Clash" Trask and that one woman there. I think her name was Elizabeth. Many of Ben's "Introductions" still crack me up to this day, and that's after having read them dozens of times.
Anyway, after telling Ben I would do that (place the website into a sort of CYOA Inform menu) I started it, got side-tracked, and eventually lost all the files on my HD during the crash of 2001.
So, like a jackass (as previously noted) I piped up and said I'd help him get BDTH complete as well. I have done exactly two objects on this. I feel terrible. Terrible for betraying his trust, the trust of his players, and the HUGO trust that bonds us authors as something more than brothers, but something quite less you understand than inceteous brothers.
I mean, what kind of jerk says, when a game has been released, "Hey, I'll help add that ending."? Of course people are waiting for me to get my butt in gear! Of course they are!
In my defense I might offer up some mealy-mouthed comment like how I have been working on a new graphical IF game that I think people would like and how that, simultaneously, I have been trying to get a very, very short Hugo game ready for the fall comp because I am dead set against the, in my opinion, best computer language ever written not being represented in an appropriate comp. But that defense is quickly terminated because there's been MORE than enough time to help my friend out and still go so slowly on those other games.
I am a worm of the lowest order. I mean that. Ben was going to write all the text for this thing and I just had to give him a helpful nudge with laying down the objects. Instead, I gave him a nudge off a very tall building, and I am wracked with shame.
Though BDTH is a game about blowing up a house, *I* deserve to be blown up much more.
(And with that being said, I coded up another object out of guilt before hitting "send." Hey, progress!!!!)