Game production materials -- Game design documents

Abstract

Andrew Nelson is a writer who was the cofounder and creative director of Cyberflix, a studio that created interactive movies for computers. CyberFlix titles were developed using a proprietary authoring toolset called DreamFactory, which was meant to allow non-programmer writers and artists to design mulitmedia games.

As the lead writer at Cyberflix from 1993–1997, Nelson wrote the scripts for games including Dust: A Tale of the Wired West and Titanic: Adventure Out of Time.

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...

Scope and Contents

This set of papers contains a variety of narrative design draft for the game Dust: A Tale of the Wired West from throughout 1994. These papers were originally stored together as a single unit; although different sections correspond to different drafts, we have presented them as-is without attempting to separate them.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

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

Following the release of Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, Andrew Nelson proposed a sequel about the fall of the Romanov dynasty, featuring returning cast from Titanic. These six pages from a pitch document written by Nelson are all that currently remain from the "Romanov Game," which Cyberflix did not end up producing.

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.

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.

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.

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.