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I hardly ever write anything
that isn't to fulfil a specific commission. After all, the purpose of writing is
communication, and what's the point of communication that never communicates with anybody?
Still, occasionally things get commissioned and then never used for one reason or another,
or written with a vague but never-realised intention of trying to sell them on in a
finished state at a later date, or simply for want of their being anything better to do at
that particular time. Here, then, are a few pieces that were unpublished
until now and
that you probably never will see on a printed page. (Unless you print this one out yourself or
something.) |
LIVER THAN YOU'LL EVER BE - February 1996
This feature was originally commissioned by Dave Green for Need
To Know, long before NTK actually existed and when it was still being pitched as a
wide-ranging print lifestyle magazine. It's an evangelical piece reappraising the
phenomenon that was the late-1980s pop band Sigue Sigue Sputnik (of whom both Dave
and I are big fans, hence the rather earnest tone of the piece), and as such obviously had
no place in the geek-news online technozine that NTK eventually ended up being. Which
reminds me, I really must give Dave back his collection of Press Gang videos some day.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO...GAME DESIGNING? - date
unknown
An Amiga Power feature which was never quite completed, and never published.
PANEL 4 COLUMN 35 - December 1998
A Digitiser column exposing some truly shocking behaviour in the games
industry, all demonstrably true and legally impeccable (and which was eventually
exposed in the Guardian), but which the Teletext editors were too gutless to
run.
TRUE CONFESSIONS 5 - March 2001
A column for Engine magazine which was a victim of the magazine's sudden
closure, and never saw print.
PANEL 4 COLUMN 72 - October 2001
The final Digitiser column, again suppressed by idiot sub-editors incapable
of grasping the concept of analogy.