Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Cosmic Encounters potentiated
My friend Peter Olotka sent me this article about his still-under-development masterpiece, the online version of Cosmic Encounter.
"But Peter," I replied, "the game is still not ready to be played. It's beautiful, promising, exciting, even fun to play with. But there's no game!. So, what can I tell people aside from the fact that if they can actually want to play the game they have to buy the board game from maybe Amazon - which'd be cool because then I'd get maybe a quarter or even 32 cents." (this is not verbatim, but a close approximation.)
Peter replies: "The story line is that I am in this business thanks to Bernie DeK who, a)sent me a fan letter re: cosmic and then b) Bernie was written up in Omni mag as the guru of game design; which c) made me call him to ask how I could become like him; and d) to which he replied "I'll have CTW [Children's Television Workshop - the Sesame Street people with whom I was sesaming] hire your brain"; then e) I became a pro instead of a part time dabbler which led to f) todays Cosmic Online... in a somewhat convoluted warpishly wormholey way. "
"But Peter," I replied, "the game is still not ready to be played. It's beautiful, promising, exciting, even fun to play with. But there's no game!. So, what can I tell people aside from the fact that if they can actually want to play the game they have to buy the board game from maybe Amazon - which'd be cool because then I'd get maybe a quarter or even 32 cents." (this is not verbatim, but a close approximation.)
Peter replies: "The story line is that I am in this business thanks to Bernie DeK who, a)sent me a fan letter re: cosmic and then b) Bernie was written up in Omni mag as the guru of game design; which c) made me call him to ask how I could become like him; and d) to which he replied "I'll have CTW [Children's Television Workshop - the Sesame Street people with whom I was sesaming] hire your brain"; then e) I became a pro instead of a part time dabbler which led to f) todays Cosmic Online... in a somewhat convoluted warpishly wormholey way. "
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