Meta-story "S" prologue: ReImagined

meta-stories are drabbles based off my own feelings when I write about other projects. This particular one has to do with the re-imagining of an old one.

Stargazer.

That word was always on my mind for the last year.

It referred to a conceptual video-game, one that planned to be Mass Effect for kids. One that, in disgust of the failure of it's proposed spiritual successor once I ran out of ideas for Stargazer itself, was shoved into the dark recesses of the "failure pit" in my mind.

My memories of it's conception are vivid.

I was living in Korea at the time, remembering some fond memories of playing EVE online before I moved there. That is where the name first appeared to me, while I was watching the world tour arc of Digimon Adventure 02. At around the same time my interest in the original Mass Effect was increasing. I began thinking of an immersive world, compelling characters, and a story to die for.

It was wonderful, but inevitably flawed.

I eventually started thinking of a new concept once my mind was tired of Stargazer. This happened after the peak of my obsession with it.

I was vacationing back in the states, at the house of my cousin's grandmother. I remember telling my cousin all about it. I remember the hot, dry Arizona days greeting me every time I returned to that house. Stargazer was all that was on my mind.

Until, one day, I thought of a weapon for the game, and said to myself "Wouldn't this look better if it had a magazine?" it was then that the aforementioned spiritual successor was born.

fast forward 2 years, I had been repeatedly told that said successor was a failure, impossible to complete. I shelved my once-precious Stargazer away, for fear it would cause me to remember the hack beta-job that had effectively destroyed it's successor.

Now, months later, I went on a walk. I had brought my phone with me and was listening to a song from the Xenosaga trilogy.

"Godsibb" was beautiful, and made me think back to the sci-fi world I had created all those years ago.

What I first thought of was a multiplayer game, but that would have been to difficult to accomplish. I remembered how I was going to make the money necessary to bring the games I had dreamed of to life: A kindle book.

I reimagined  the first creation I was truly proud of as an episodic novel saga. One that, if I do get to become an indie game developer, may be adapted into an interactive format.

My hope is that my return to the sci-fi genre finds some form of success, at least. If it doesn't, it'll at least be a learning experience.

Author's Note

I admit my prose is horrible, so if you're going to critique it, at least give me an example of good prose.

Also, what do you think of the concept of a meta-story in general?

Reviews

[catwoman]

i don't see anything wrong, but again i am horrible with prose :)well, just a really small mistake is that your 6th last paragraph starts with a small letter..i didn't know about meta stories until i read this but it seems to be really cool :)i like it :)

[Demiurgic_Amon]

I practically came up with the concept of a meta-story myself.

[catwoman]

It's really cool :)