Tyrian: Chapter 1 & 2

What happens when your parents go out to have a coffee, your brother goes to the movies and you’re left alone without electricity in your house while it’s raining? (It actually happened…) You tend to… take out that awesome Tequila bottle you’ve been keeping for a rainy day.

You pop it, and then, you have an awesome idea. Let’s take my mother’s laptop, which can handle pretty well for a couple of hours with its battery!!

Then, you realize it’s time to keep on writing that science fiction project based on that awesome game from your childhood. Hell, why not?

Ok. So, this is the Introduction, Prologue and the first revision of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. It’s not completely checked, so, strange words/grammatical errors/bullshit may pop out from nowhere as well. If you read it, I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did when I wrote it.

Tyrian: The Story by Gerardo Galíndez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 Mexico License.

Tyrian: The story

Tyrian is this awesome game I was addicted to when I was kid. About a year ago, I downloaded Tyrian 2000 from a fan page which looks just like an official page, as it’s been released as freeware.

The game was written completely in Pascal 14 years ago. The engine actually handles sprites, so it’s a piece of impresive work. Even though it’s relatively simple to work with sprites, 14 years ago there was no Sprite class or anything similar. They did a very good job, and it was well received.

Recently, I started writing science fiction. I can’t say if I’m good or not, but I do enjoy it a lot. I previously wrote another story, but I didn’t like it much so I left it. Perhaps I’ll write it again, one day. So far, I have written only a small introduction, a prologue and the first part of chapter one for the next part of Tyrian’s story.

Tyrian

As usual, the text is protected by the Creative Commons Attribution-Non commercial-Share alike license. Should you like the story and/or have any ideas, feel free to email me, at gerardo.galindez@gmail.com

The Novelist Drama

As I said before, one of the things I enjoy the most, is writing. I love writing for this blog (actually I got pretty excited 5 minutes ago when I saw I had 25 visits in the last 2 hours) but I also enjoy pretty much writing stories.

In december of this year, I’m taking the CAE certification. I already took the FCE, which I scored an A.
Since I started high school, I’ve been taking extra English classes focussed to this exams. In this classes, I’m asked regularly to write about something, sometimes its a formal letter, sometimes its a short story about anything. The last week, I was talking with Mariela, my little “sister”. We have been friends for some time now, and we we’re talking about the movie “Wanted”.

After some joking, I told her I would write my composition about her, in a short story with a Matrix and Wanted touch. The result, was the best friggin’ composition I’ve done in some time. Everyone liked it, so I started to look carefully at it. I wanted all the feedback I could get, so I wrote in a document and send it to everyone who likes reading, and who are good enough to give a good point of view.

I’ve kept on writing since then, I still don’t know what will I do with it, but one thing goes for sure: I’m writing this novel. I’m completely in love with it. So, I’m publishing it here, so anyone can see it. I would really appreciate if you comment about it, if you like it or not, but also, what did you like and what not.

So, I present the Prologue of my untitled novel. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did while I wrote it.

Prologue.doc

As a side note, this prologue is protected by the Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. In other words, if you want to download this file, print it  a thousand times, give it to your friends and/or use it for non-profit activies or publish it anywhere, you’re perfectly free to do it, as long as you give a reference to this blog URL and you include my name (Gerardo Galíndez Barreda)