Club Dead is a total melding of live-action filmmaking and digital imaging," says game director Greg Harrison, describing MTV's first CD-ROM, released in November.
Harrison, who was part of the design crew of Pee Wee's Playhouse, teamed up with Chicago's H-Gun Labs (see Wired 2.09, page 32) to create a film noir murder mystery CD-ROM for MTV/Viacom New Media. The player in MTV's Club Dead assumes the role of Sam Frost, a cyberplumber who trouble-shoots high-tech computer equipment in Alexandria, a floating Arctic resort. When resort guests start getting bumped off, Frost has to hunt down the killer within four days.
Harrison says the game is a slice of real life: "If you do something wrong early, miss somebody you were supposed to meet, or don't pick up a piece of gear you need - you're going to screw up later."
With an eye to the future, Harrison is writing a script for a feature film, Brickface and Stucco's Big Block, Bone-Jarring, Turbo-Terror, Fuel-Injected Joyride, and is wrapping up a short for Nickelodeon he says is called Adventures of Patch Head. "It's a tale of an 8-year-old hillbilly kid who wears half a watermelon on his head and rides a Big Wheel powered by a V-8 engine." Viacom New Media: (800) 469 2539, +1 (212) 258 6000.
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