Box Andrew Nelson, Cyberflix papers addendum

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...

Scope and Contents

Despite the date listed on its spine, this binder contained a variety of scripts and design documents for Dust: A Tale of the Wired West from throughout 1994, as well as materials produced during the production and post-release of Cyberflix's Titanic: Adventure Out of Time.

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.

Abstract After leaving Cyberflix, Andrew Nelson developed a pitch for a web-based educational alternate reality game based on the historical mystery of the Russian princess Anastasia. Thematically, this game appears to have built on Nelson's previous work on the unproduced "Romanov Game" for Cyberflix. According to Nelson, this game concept was produced with two local web designers in Knoxville, TN, identified here under their corporate names Digital Media...