14th June 2009, 2:37 AM
That's pretty amazing! However, you aren't alone. As of late video game fans and their fan fictiony works have been getting more attention than normal from the old guard that originally made the works they are fans of.
Take AGD interactive, formerly "Tierra Studios". As I've posted before, they're the fan group that made full remakes of the first two King's Quest game. Notable here is that during the course of the projects they were able to talk with Ken Williams, one of the major programmers behind those two games (it seems that Roberta Williams, the main brain behind the series, wasn't available, they're both retired at any rate). Along the way, they managed to snag an unexpected bonus. While getting voice acting for their fan remakes, they got the voice actor for King Graham used for the actual King's Quest games (namely 5 and 6, as the first 4 didn't have voice acting, and Graham didn't appear in 7) and he agreed to do the voice work for Graham for the remakes. This is especially notable in the case of their remake of KQ2 because they practically rewrote the whole game so it's basically one big fan fiction nod to the entire series with references to fan theories about the Black Cloak Society and their relation to other characters and so on.
AGD didn't go further, but Infamous Studios, another fan group, remade KQ3 and once again got the talents of that same guy to do Graham's voice there. Unfortunatly they couldn't get the original voice actor for Alexander. Now there's yet another group remaking KQ4 and apparently that guy is yet again willing to go the distance for them.
It's pretty interesting how the net allows fans to get chances they didn't have before.
Take AGD interactive, formerly "Tierra Studios". As I've posted before, they're the fan group that made full remakes of the first two King's Quest game. Notable here is that during the course of the projects they were able to talk with Ken Williams, one of the major programmers behind those two games (it seems that Roberta Williams, the main brain behind the series, wasn't available, they're both retired at any rate). Along the way, they managed to snag an unexpected bonus. While getting voice acting for their fan remakes, they got the voice actor for King Graham used for the actual King's Quest games (namely 5 and 6, as the first 4 didn't have voice acting, and Graham didn't appear in 7) and he agreed to do the voice work for Graham for the remakes. This is especially notable in the case of their remake of KQ2 because they practically rewrote the whole game so it's basically one big fan fiction nod to the entire series with references to fan theories about the Black Cloak Society and their relation to other characters and so on.
AGD didn't go further, but Infamous Studios, another fan group, remade KQ3 and once again got the talents of that same guy to do Graham's voice there. Unfortunatly they couldn't get the original voice actor for Alexander. Now there's yet another group remaking KQ4 and apparently that guy is yet again willing to go the distance for them.
It's pretty interesting how the net allows fans to get chances they didn't have before.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)