Re: Activision and Zork??

["Mike Berlyn" <mberlyn@cascadepublishing.com>]

Adam,

I could write the story and code it, but I couldn't sell it as Suspended II
without their (highly unlikely) blessing.

I came up with six new robots and an insane plot... maybe I _will_ write it.
After I finish Chameleon and WriteIdea.

Sigh. Work work work. Work work work. :)

-- Mike

Adam J. Thornton wrote in message <7ahvn8$cgo$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU>...
>In article <7ahpgv$2kvo@enews4.newsguy.com>,
>Mike Berlyn <mberlyn@cascadepublishing.com> wrote:
>>We (Marc Blank & I) proposed a sequel to Suspended to Activision. They
>>weren't really interested in doing it.
>>
>>The concept for it is pretty outrageous, and I might end up working on it
>>sometime in the future.
>
>Cool.
>
>Do you know whether Activision would let you sell it?  I don't know of
>anyone approaching them about commercial derivative works from their
>Infocom properties, even though they're cool about freeware.
>
>Adam
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