July 22, 2005

Presentation: Pokemon as Myst

Devon again. This is what I typed during the presentation. Any mistakes are my inability to listen or type:

Pokemon as Myst

Characters are traditional Pokemon (Ash, Team Rocket, …)
Started in 2001. Continued into 2004-2005
Swelled up to 165 pages, 53 chapters (10 point font)
Continued working.
Finished last week.

[Reading of the first chapter by the author]

Q – Where can we read this online?
A – Not yet hosted.
[Offer to host from someone in the audience]
[clapping]
Q – How many different Pokemon?
A – About 3.
Q – Why did you choose Pokemon as the Stranger?
A – I knew about and it only made sense to try and incorporate the two.
Q – Has it occurred to you that the Squee is like a Cubone.
A –
Q – It may be too soon to ask but how about a sequel?
A – I really need to know what’s going on with Myst 5 before writing about it.
Q – So will you be making a book for each game?
A – The story is in 4 parts, one for each game.
Q – The Pokemon have innate abilities, are they used?
A – Not to spoil too much, but yes.
Q – I see there are pictures, did you draw those.
A – Actually I combined them [from other sources?].

[applause]

Posted by devonette at July 22, 2005 09:14 PM