Ask the Author: Phillip Berrie
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Phillip Berrie
Hello Khrail.
I have done some work on the next book but then real life seems to have gotten in the way. However, it is my plan to get it out sometime this year so please keep your fingers crossed for me.
Thank you for your kind words.
Phill Berrie.
I have done some work on the next book but then real life seems to have gotten in the way. However, it is my plan to get it out sometime this year so please keep your fingers crossed for me.
Thank you for your kind words.
Phill Berrie.
Phillip Berrie
Hello Alex.
I'm glad you liked the story and got to try out a few of the different endings.
This was a paid gig for me with Tin Man Games, so I don't have a lot of control over the intellectual property as it is theirs because they paid me to do it...
However, the basic storyline of the beginning is based on a competition module I wrote for a role playing convention many, many years ago. In that module, the five player's characters each wake up in the same predicament as the protagonist in 'And Their Heroes Were Lost', which was represented by the referee handing each of the players a blank character sheet.
In that module, each of the player's characters had predefined characteristics and powers, and the challenge for the players were to find out what those characteristics and powers were as they tried to escape the jungle prison camp and/or find out what had been done to them and why.
The storyline in 'And Their Heroes Were Lost' goes a lot further than the competition module ever did and goes more deeply into the possible backgrounds that that single character can have, which, if you hadn't already realised, are basically three.
So, in the end, I can't really say too much about the background of 'And Their Heroes Were Lost' for legal reasons, but I can talk about the original roleplaying module as that was developed many years before Interactive Fiction even became possible.
If this aspect of the story is of interest to you, then perhaps we can talk some more.
Thanks again for your kind words.
Phill.
I'm glad you liked the story and got to try out a few of the different endings.
This was a paid gig for me with Tin Man Games, so I don't have a lot of control over the intellectual property as it is theirs because they paid me to do it...
However, the basic storyline of the beginning is based on a competition module I wrote for a role playing convention many, many years ago. In that module, the five player's characters each wake up in the same predicament as the protagonist in 'And Their Heroes Were Lost', which was represented by the referee handing each of the players a blank character sheet.
In that module, each of the player's characters had predefined characteristics and powers, and the challenge for the players were to find out what those characteristics and powers were as they tried to escape the jungle prison camp and/or find out what had been done to them and why.
The storyline in 'And Their Heroes Were Lost' goes a lot further than the competition module ever did and goes more deeply into the possible backgrounds that that single character can have, which, if you hadn't already realised, are basically three.
So, in the end, I can't really say too much about the background of 'And Their Heroes Were Lost' for legal reasons, but I can talk about the original roleplaying module as that was developed many years before Interactive Fiction even became possible.
If this aspect of the story is of interest to you, then perhaps we can talk some more.
Thanks again for your kind words.
Phill.
Phillip Berrie
My current writing gig is an interactive fiction story for Tin Man Games, an Australian game developer. It is available for both Android phones and iOS.
Its setting is contemporary Plus, with the Plus being a spoiler for the beginning of the story, so I won't mention it here.
I don't think I can post a link here, but if you do a search for 'Choices: And Their Heroes Were Lost' you should be able to find out more about it.
Its setting is contemporary Plus, with the Plus being a spoiler for the beginning of the story, so I won't mention it here.
I don't think I can post a link here, but if you do a search for 'Choices: And Their Heroes Were Lost' you should be able to find out more about it.
Phillip Berrie
It lives. It cannot die.
Phillip Berrie
I have some genetic 'garbage' on my DNA (one of my daughters has it too). What if it wasn't garbage.
Phillip Berrie
The first favourite couple that comes to mind are Dracula and Mina Harker in Fred Saberhagen's 'Dracula Tapes', which is a retelling of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' from the count's point of view.
In this very clever re-interpretation of the classic horror story, Saberhagen picks apart the bad science and some loose writing of the story to paint the count in a much better light for the reader.
I won't say anything more so as to not spoil the story, but I will say that the 'bad' guy gets the girl in the end in this story, and I was totally on his side.
In this very clever re-interpretation of the classic horror story, Saberhagen picks apart the bad science and some loose writing of the story to paint the count in a much better light for the reader.
I won't say anything more so as to not spoil the story, but I will say that the 'bad' guy gets the girl in the end in this story, and I was totally on his side.
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