The History Book: Weeks #28 & #29
Oct. 6th, 2010 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aSo two weeks ago, I had no weekend gaming, so I decided to take on a big project: GDW. Not only was it a long history, but I also had a new article by Marc Miller to read and pull relevant info out of. Turned out that the editing wasn't as big a deal as I thought, because I'd touched GDW up to send it as a sample to my new publisher at the start of the year. Also, the new article had very little of use in it. In any case, I finished up GDW two weeks ago.
This last week I knew I was really busy, but I thought I could do two short pieces, DGP and Imperium Games. Much to my surprise, they were pretty long, and I was working on them late on Sunday. I'm still pretty astounded that I had 3000+ words to write about Imperium Games, a company whose publishing lifetime spanned about a year. In any case, they're done now too, completing my Traveller trilogy.
I'm really happy to have touched Imperium up, because it was literally the first of these history articles that I wrote. I'm pretty bemused, thus, that it's never been published anywhere. I think I might have been worried at the time that the article might be scandalous because, according to people I trust, big sums of money went missing at Imperium. However, the article lightly glosses that: it certainly talks about the money going missing, but stays away from the gossip-y side of things (including who the thief was thought to be).
Maybe it just seems less scandalous now because, in the almost four years since I drafted the Imperium Games article there have been major money-theft scandals at both Catalyst and Palladium. Nowadays Imperium is just looking like they were ahead of their time.
This last week I knew I was really busy, but I thought I could do two short pieces, DGP and Imperium Games. Much to my surprise, they were pretty long, and I was working on them late on Sunday. I'm still pretty astounded that I had 3000+ words to write about Imperium Games, a company whose publishing lifetime spanned about a year. In any case, they're done now too, completing my Traveller trilogy.
I'm really happy to have touched Imperium up, because it was literally the first of these history articles that I wrote. I'm pretty bemused, thus, that it's never been published anywhere. I think I might have been worried at the time that the article might be scandalous because, according to people I trust, big sums of money went missing at Imperium. However, the article lightly glosses that: it certainly talks about the money going missing, but stays away from the gossip-y side of things (including who the thief was thought to be).
Maybe it just seems less scandalous now because, in the almost four years since I drafted the Imperium Games article there have been major money-theft scandals at both Catalyst and Palladium. Nowadays Imperium is just looking like they were ahead of their time.