"Western Proposal I" binder, est. 1993

Item — Box: Andrew Nelson, Cyberflix papers addendum

Identifier: NELSON-11

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This is a collection of production materials, memos, correspondence, scripts, press and marketing materials, press clippings, and demo software from CyberFlix Incorporated. In particular, this collection includes an extense amount of pre-production research materials and multiple draft scripts for Cyberflix's 1996 game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, for which Andrew Nelson served as writer and producer.

Dates

Creation: est. 1993

Creator

Andrew Nelson (Author, Person)
CyberFlix Inc (Production company, Organization)

Note on Date

This proposal references the year 1993 as the present day; as a result, we assume this was written in 1993, two years before the release of the final game.

Full Extent

1 Binders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This pitch document by Andrew Nelson, titled "Treatment for a Western on CD-ROM," contains an early narrative and storyboards for a game that would become Dust: A Tale of the Wired West. This outline is significantly different from the final game: The story is set in the Western town of El Varmint and uses a flashback framing device. Nelson notes (p.3) that he explicitly tried to subvert Western racial stereotypes in this outline by portraying positive and empowered Indigenous and Black characters, some of whom do not appear in the final game.