The other side of the story.

Space Siege currently sits at a 56% on GameRankings.

Would it have been ranked higher if all my dialogue hadn’t been rewritten and re-recorded after I was laid off with a bunch of other people?

Maybe, maybe not.  I don’t know.  I do know that everyone on the project (at least, while I was still there) gave it their best shot.  No one set out to make a game that would get a 56%.

But in the interest of full disclosure — and in the interest of clearing my name, which I opted to not remove from the game’s credits — here is the original script and recorded VO for Space Siege.

It is obviously still a work in progress, as I upload more web pages.  I’m also offering some “notes” along the way.  Kind of a director’s commentary, I guess.

Enjoy.

Update: I have removed the links to the originally recorded VO files, at the (informal) request of some old friends at GPG.  I’m not trying to cause any trouble, boys — don’t sic Patrick on me.

It’s on like Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong 3, specifically. The one with the bugs and the greenhouses and stuff.

Well, nine years after my first attempt at a “blog”, I’m back, baby.  And this time, I’m not posting inconsequential ramblings about what I ate at McDonald’s (way too much) or uploading blurry pictures of vanity license plates that I took with a crappy “digital” camera that had an actual floppy disk inside.

No, this time it’s different.  This time, it’s a real “blog”.  Only like my girlfriend, I really don’t like the word “blog”.

“But Grant,” you say, already seizing an opening, “there’s a 371 pixel tall image of the word ‘blog’ right over there.”

Well, I don’t really know what to say to that.

Just the thing you want to hear from a guy who writes for a living, right?

So this will be the place where I blog.  From which I blog?  I don’t know.  It will be about video games.  It will be about politics.  It will be about all kinds of things.

But mostly, it’s about time.

BAM!  That’s right.  I get paid to do this, people.

Elsewhere on this site, I will be uploading the entire original script (with accompanying VO) of Space Siege.  If you’re reading this blog, you probably know all about my tortured history with that game.  I will be posting other samples of my work from the video game industry, as well.

I may, from time to time, post “reviews” of things such as video games, movies, TV shows, new brands of aspartame-sweetened colas, etc.  I’ve already made the rollover images for a “reviews” section, so I might as well stick to that.

Elsewhere, I will post longform things that shall not be called “rants”, because I hate that word, too.  That will be called the “opinions” section.  This “blog” section — the length of this post notwithstanding — will usually be for shorter burst transmissions.

I look forward to seeing you again.  Thanks for stopping by.