- Egad. "Yes, This Exists: $1,000 #Earbuds" http://t.co/2h1BLvm0R2 02:40:18
- "Got A Wound? Science Says Rub Some Dirt In It" http://t.co/ZfXf5LhGyY 03:25:34
- "These Self-Assembling Nanoflowers Are As Beautiful As They Are Tiny" http://t.co/y3KPmra3hG 04:35:04
- attn @Sipopera 🙂 RT @SteveLawes: Good morning Lisbon #lovethisplace http://t.co/SN9KTpZaom 07:34:14
- Evocative shot from the last day of shooting on s3 ep 2 of #Sherlock… http://t.co/fB9uXJmvVD 08:11:04
- Just a note for those interested: #YoungWizards New Millennium Edition bk. 7, WIZARD'S HOLIDAY, launches tomorrow AM. 22:11:24
- The strain of #blight that caused the Famine may be extinct. "#Irish #potato #famine pathogen identified" http://t.co/6rCXozscHu 22:30:12
Online life
- Oh great. @p_morwood 's computer's monitor just blew up. 20:48:17
- classictrek: Some of comic book icon John Byrne’s best work of the last few years … http://t.co/AhtOTpMi2f #startrek 23:35:27
- "Teacher suspended for allegedly touching girl with a banana" http://t.co/q3tMU7don7 21:10:44
- Wut. (EYEROLL) RT @owillis: Drudge's pal Alex Jones thinks a "weather weapon" may have been used in Oklahoma http://t.co/X0aqBIz7NO 21:25:43
- "Drunken moon blamed for car rollover" http://t.co/SsmYzI7IIT 21:32:04
- Woman tweet-brags about hitting cyclist with her car. Discovers that police also use Twitter: http://t.co/AtaYVY5mCs 22:10:36
- Oh CRIPES. "Quarrel with girlfriend caused man to cut off his penis and flush it down toilet" http://t.co/xVfNFfc9OG 22:22:37
- Yay! "Russian space lizards return to earth" http://t.co/kVHOJzyueZ 23:34:38
- It was kind of you to think of me. Thanks for that. 🙂 http://t.co/SFe27IyF4D 06:17:54
- Dairine repeatedly gets her comeuppance later in the series; a big flashy start doesn't necessarily imply that a… http://t.co/waot7SMW6E 06:20:29
- The latest of the New Millennium Editions of the Young Wizards series is out! Extensively revised an http://t.co/vRA3KvS5oV 07:35:26
- Want to send a #haiku to #Mars? Details here: http://t.co/YWkyR1r31I #space 08:01:02
- Aww! Thank you. 🙂 http://t.co/F5MTOgTctF 12:20:20
- Hmm… RT @PJhaarsma: Evidence of the existence of ‘multiverse’ revealed for the http://t.co/Md7j9ct1gM via @prismatic 19:21:10
- Ukraine wood nymph uses up eastern European dry ice quote. Also, big guy in filched plaid. #eurovision 20:45:17
- Whoops, X-men White Queen look. #eurovision 20:51:24
- Think these two may need benefit of clergy shortly. #eurovision 20:57:48
- Ok. Go Ireland! #eurovision 20:58:49
- Visit Ireland. We have Knotwork. 🙂 #eurovision 21:00:37
- Tight pants, oiled tats, fountains of fire. Visit Scenic Ireland. 🙂 #eurovision 21:02:32
- Wait, is Westeros in Europe? – #Eurovision http://t.co/rjSe1VDOe4 21:16:43
- Ah me. Mark Lenard. http://t.co/lwnCkKKr2K 21:27:20
- An outsider's thoughts on #eurovision: http://t.co/vGJoXrtfCd 22:16:32
- Did #StarTrek Give Rise to #NASA's 'Space Shuttle'? http://t.co/br6SvorNHM #space 16:38:45
- Booked into the Dublin Savoy for #StarTrekIntoDarkness tomorrow. SO buzzed. 🙂 #stid #startrek 16:53:31
- "'Smart guns' could be next step in gun control": http://t.co/nCqUQjN1vg #skyfall 17:03:33
- Egad. RT @BoxOfficeFacts: IRON MAN 3 is on track to gross $1 billion dollars worldwide by Friday. 17:33:13
- A certain amusing resonance in the way they removed him, too. RT @ryanfarrr: I hope someone filmed this http://t.co/P2luQ6x0nA 17:49:10
- 🙂 RT @ChrisDunne29: Reckon we should do a compromise with the eurosceptics whereby we stay in Europe but leave #Eurovision… 19:15:35
- Oh, crap. "#NASA’s #Kepler #space telescope malfunction may end hunt for planets": http://t.co/ppMIzaqWGS 20:00:27
- It's out now! The revised New Millennium Edition of A #WIZARD ALONE: http://t.co/YJBlshjvig #YA #fantasy #youngadult #sf #wizards 22:35:03
- "Broomstick-flying #witches to be brought down in Swaziland" http://t.co/yu4bHrNMow 00:17:06
- Available now: the revised New Millennium Edition of A #WIZARD ALONE. http://t.co/dFBY5jRcuD #fantasy #sf #YA #wizards 01:30:18
- "Man run down in dispute over #duck" http://t.co/Cdpa1P3HXV 02:40:14
- "Woman accused of slapping police officer so she could be jailed and forced to stop #smoking" http://t.co/ltrNQ4Jgws 03:25:31
- "Man blew up family home after wife and children went on picnic without him" http://t.co/5tQFIlRiwi 04:35:07
- Hey, thanks. 🙂 http://t.co/Qr6SrJSIJW 08:38:50
- #Ebooks Direct mailing list folk — sorry for store downtime this morning! All discounts have been extended one day. http://t.co/yXP816ckZa 08:46:20
- What's the next frontier for Chris Hadfield? http://t.co/CpPHvCvPyz .@CmdrHadfield #space #Canada 10:12:48
- The Argents' Bestiary: Phallic Unicorns, Ball-less Beavers and Dirty, Dirty, Intersex Hyenas: http://t.co/58MophYcrA 11:52:36
- CRIPES I am so furious right now – I need to go for a walk. http://t.co/edNsQxjI1H 15:44:51
- Hey, it's out! The New Millennium Ed'n of A WIZARD ALONE: http://t.co/TIYQ9RhhMS #YA #fantasy #autism 20:56:05
- Hard-launching today! A #WIZARD ALONE, the #New Millennium Edition: http://t.co/29sVg9xBDP #youngadult #ya #fantasy http://t.co/hAlBZ5o3Ca 14:53:32
- & he should know. 🙂 RT @p_morwood: Fake movie blood recipe from Mark Gatiss, with an extra suggestion from me. http://t.co/HxmYB4UP4f 15:02:00
- (bemusement) Why the hell have I been watching the #Eurovision?? 20:49:56
- Oh god, we made the #Eurovision finals. We’re doomed. We’re going to win and have to run it AGAIN. 20:51:27
- YAY URSULA!! RT @mythsoc: 2013 Mythopoeic Award finalists announced: http://t.co/twAtLZkJOH 20:54:54
- It’s out now: the New Millennium Edition of A #WIZARD ALONE. http://t.co/TIYQ9RhhMS #youngwizards #YA #youngadult 21:34:05
- Bloody #Torchwood again, no doubt. “Council refuse to investigate reported vortex to another dimension” http://t.co/R1qFD4HnsJ 23:34:15
This is a work I did long before there was much of an (accessible) internet on which to discuss it, and it’s a hoot to find now that the bits of it I liked best, which were inaccessible to me for a long time, are now on the Web where I can get at them. (Along with everybody else.)
Erin Roberts at Electronic Arts brought me on board to help develop the story and do the screenplay for P2:TD in 1995, and to this date it holds the record for the largest piece of screen work I’ve ever done — more than three hundred pages of screenplay, counting all the alternate endings and side-branchings of the story. It was a very early attempt at interactive film, with healthy doses of live-action material interspersed amid the gameplay. This being the reason that until now I’ve seen so little of the filmed material: I kept screwing up the gameplay and couldn’t advance.
What astonishes me now, though, is the cast. You can see the credits sequence here — and if you now tried to cast a film with all those Names in it, you’d be implying a very serious budget indeed. The marvelous thing is that they were all apparently quite excited to get involved with what was then a most unusual project. (Though probably not half as excited as I was to find out they were getting involved with it. I mentioned to Erin at one point that I had developed the beer-related religion that appears at one point with Brian Blessed in mind as its preferred local cleric… and was completely knocked flat when I found out that they’d actually cast him. That was the way things kept going all that while: it was a magic time for me, even if the writing work meant that I sometimes had to spend a couple of weeks at a time away from home, shut up working in a hotel in Slough and missing Peter like crazy.)
…When we were down at Warpcon in Cork in January of this year, we ran into fellow writer Gunnar Roxen, and while chatting with him, P2:TD came up in passing. So I was delighted just now to find that Gunnar’s posted background and links to some of the cinematic material from the game to YouTube (as have various others: normally they seem to come up in the YouTube sidebar, for those who’re interested in investigating further). The teaser to the game is here: and here’s a YouTube playlist of some of the filmed sections that Gunnar posted up.
Enjoy!