games, i haven't played.
elfh / cyberpunks unity
games, i haven't played
games, games, games. i'am tired of
playing. sometimes, i'am doing
this, even not seeing the horror
of the situation. and after that,
staying amazed by the fact of how
deep, the desire to be someone else could be, follow the rules
of the game, run from what i really
am. but, for now, we wouldn't examine the elements of
psychoanalysis, thick yellow books can tell you more on this
subject. today we'll talk about creation and circulation of
computer games, proceeding from spectrum reality, of course.
i have to confess at one time
practically, computer games
doesn't catch me. for about eight
years, not speccy, not any other
platform fails to attract my deep
attention, when it comes to gaming. of course, i watch all
speccy releases, that are appearing now, even played
'supercars' a few months ago, but that is not mine.
that is why it was very interesting for me to know and
understand captivated players and distributors. this was an
incitement for me, to carry out some interviews
and polls for adv15.
first thing, i've stalked with, seems still to be a barrier of
uniting people with a similar views us and them. russia and
west. our development was very different,
that drived to the truly absurd results. whereas abroad still
exist people, really involved in speccy
games, desiring to experience and
deepen in the worlds, created by
its authors, my nationals absolutely doesn't care about
accessibility of their works. projects, released in russia,
rarely become a common property there, even taking into account
its quality and originality, quite often surpass modern foreign
hits. a lot of people are already submitted to tr-dos, but
our infinite russian language
still remains inaccessible for the
remained part of the planet. no,
there is no one guilty for that,
but we have to think about our neighbours, especially, that the
high-quality translation wouldn't
be the complex problem. because
there are a lot of people in our
community, who know english language, and practically, anyone of
them would be glad to help.
next distinctive feature between
our cultures became the point of
view at game creating, so the results, according to this. at
west 'Jet set willy' still remains eternal
spectrum cult. not bothered by the
waiting of new complex games, people bought consoles, amigas,
pcs, where the flowering of 3d-shooters, rpg's and strategic
games took place. we had unsurpassed
'Black raven', and a lot of splendid
demo versions, showing what can be
done by the one, who have the desire to create, not depending
from the accessible means of producing.
evidently, here is the reason of
such a staggering differences between releases of, for example,
'cronosoft' and some outstanding russian works, rarely
appearing at scenergy, in party packs and 'your
game 'contest. and while simon ullyatt (cronosoft) is having a
good time, devoted to his child, alex xor
tries to find sponsors, authors and
at least survive in this unfriendly
industrial society, throwing man to
spend most of his time in attempts
to establish his urban life.
and the most interesting discovery, i want to share with you, is
people, here and there are playing
old and new speccy games. and what
is more - they are even ready to
pay some money for it. and here
emerges one more problem, not being solved since the
disappearing of 'inforcom' (huge russian label)
absence of centralized distribution of spectrum software. it is
absolutely clear - there is no one
in russia, who is ready to buy cronosoft releases, because the
shipping prices would be too high and it is very hard to find
48k + tape fanatics here. in the same time,
abroad, not much people know about
existence of modern russian games.
of course, i mean those, who could
be really interested. yes, 'zxf'
is paying attention to some
titles, but the whole layer still
remains unreachable to the fans of
retrogaming. the solution is evident - only one man infatuated
by his occupation, is needed to start
this 'business', unprofitable from
the beginning. i'am sure, that
will come very soon, because we
are getting older, finding some
not very burdensome ways to support our first casual bodies,
getting possibility to give ourselves to the the things, we are
really interested in.
but there is one more, very powerfull feature, uniting us. that
is common for the every creator,
standing aside of mainstream
highways - dominating desire to
express ideas and feelings, but
not to live one more day in labour
for the sake of the system. this
absorbs, sucks out, fullfills,
bringing so needed circulation of
positive energy to our lives. that
is why i adore the results of work
of 'fire and ice' team, rejoice
and break into smile, seeing
'Flash beer', look in depression
at some of my friends, who spend
their lifetime preoccupied with
'Warcraft', 'silent hill',
doesn't_matter_what_else, deadening every single gleams of
creativity.
yes, in a big world, with the big
brothers, for a long time already,
game industry could be placed in a
one row with alcohol, drugs, TV
and all other direct or indirect
means of mind control. and what is
really sad now, everything is not
as it meant to be at the beginning. we all know, what was put to
the first home computers by its
creators - an instrument, to help
human development. that was promoted by built in programming
languages and by the need to have some knowledge even to load
the game. and sure, majority of us did
first steps in programming by learning the inner structure of
'wec le mans', 'captain trueno' and
'Puzznic', trying to get infinite
life.
the system tries to use everything, that posesses the positive
potential in its own purposes. takes under control achievements
of mankind, imperceptibly changing
the direction of its development.
you don't have to think, why everything is so bad in modern
society and especially don't have to make an attempts to change
current situation. but the human nature is
ineradicable, desire to resist couldn't be suppressed by no
officially authorized means, that is why you are getting an
opportunity to destroy some extraterrestrial invaders, or even
a passer-by, peacefully going on the street, and then you can
calmfully drawn the remained feeling of dissatisfaction in a
cheap alchohol in a nearest bar, but not be late, next day
you'll have to spent at work, obtaining welfare, that you can't
use in full scale anyway.
the history is being changed, rewritten, forgotten. but
everything is not that bad for us. we are not
in system's interest. huge corporations will not try to put us
down, government will not be able to
dismiss us, and representatives of
the 'law' would hardly have a desire to produce us an
accusation in illegal actions. but, not being a
closed community, we can
construct an elements of truth and
perfection, making it penetrate
the outer world, doing it a bit
better. and the only thing i hope
to have a power to realise all conceived plans and ideas, and
to reveal that is still closed by the veil of time ...
30.04.2004
elfh
