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A six-dollar Jack & Coke, old friends coming back to haunt me and a reminder of how I used to go out. And everyone’s tan — except Adrian (and well me — but this is the first time I think his pasty has ever triumphed mine). A mountain-house weekend in Tennessee is coming for him soon, hopefully. Maybe that’ll bring his color back. Tell him to go.
I got asked by Jess tonight, a third-party technically outside of this game of Myst, to join her and Adrian and our crew for a drink in celebration of the script that’s been finished. This was an odd start to an early evening, as being asked to an event to celebrate something I helped start reminded me of how disconnected I am from it all. And I nearly said, nah — to work, make connections, send resumes: be busy (or watch reruns of How I Met Your Mother to connect with Ted Mosby, Architect, who is apparently not going to be a real architect any longer). Seems familiar. But I’m supposed to get out more and commit more time than just stopping by. I’ll try to not just stop by here.
I’ve been boggled by the DVD that we got a couple of weeks ago from Issac and Nate. It was definitely something that I hadn’t been expecting. Adrian had mentioned to me that someone was sending us something, but I had no idea what it was. And the moment I saw that disc in the orange “aged” case I worried about snakes. All the people asking. Where’s the movie? What’s going on? Aren’t you guys done yet? And then got put in my place as these two guys from Oregon made a request to us that was eerily similar to the one we posed to Cyan just a few years ago. A hand-drawn pitch piece, and a fan-fan-produced concept film for a best-selling iPhone app that originally changed the face of linear gaming.
Where are the rest of those fans? I hope they’re on the way.
Seeing the new Star Trek film helped sell me on the concept of rebooting — how to take an aged concept and repackage it for the masses. Now, we’re not JJ, we’re not close, and sometimes I’ve wondered if his Myst-aptitude has led him to this site (if he’s not too busy playing Super Mario 2 with Greg Grunberg). Did he roll his eyes and make the assumption that many others do? Two no-names. No industry connections. Low-budget independent fan film. Why haven’t they just shot it yet with their XL2? And the statement we’ve repeated time and again surfaces once more like a mantra:
We’re doing something different. We’re pushing for large-scale. Theatrical. Studio-involvement. The only reason we’re here is to show the story. Not the secret studio handshake. Not at the Martini bar. No cocktail onions. And it has worked thus far.
A copy of Adrian’s success is already in the hands of a production company head. Right now. No gatekeeper. No script-reader. No iterns. The production of a major theatrical release has his attention for the rest of the week, but a read-through is on his list for the weekend. And as Adrian tells me this at Starbucks tonight, I admit to him that I’ve lost faith. Because too many man-hours cramming PHP-code into commerce sites and too many bills and too much of life in South Bend, IN has pulled me away from having my sights to the stars. And our first call with Rand was over 3 years ago. And it seems that it’s all gone so slow.
But this is how it goes with home-grown concepts. It’s not for the weak of heart. And, I think that by putting real-life aside for a little while tonight and getting out and leaning back and reflecting on all that’s happened and all that’s happening, I finally got a little of that faith back.
At least enough to get back into the game. Even though I’m not entirely sure how many marker switches are on the island. I think I’m still missing one.
3:29 am
You’re talking like him now.
May 20 2009
Hi all of you,
Iam really really happy to hear about these news. Please keep Myst alive!
with the age of 12 i started to play myst. I was grown up with this game and i played every game, translated everything and read every book. Every time i was in these games and the books i had this “myst feeling”. But after End of Ages i lost it. Yesterday i found this website and i had these feeling again
Nell