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Offline Bonzo

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The UFOFic project thread.
« on: October 15, 2012, 09:50:32 pm »
If you didn't see H-Hour's post on the news feed, one of the professional writers from Firedance, Gary Bonn, has written some short stories inspired by playing UFO:ai! Gary and I will be collaborating to produce a new five-minute piece every two weeks, and when the story is complete, publish an actual UFO:ai inspired novel. The segments are available to read (for free) at Writerlot.net, and the novel/novella will be available to download for free in few days window, which we will warn you about ages in advance.

According the poor bloke who monitors the analytics we've had a good few hundred (!?) readers from the UFO:ai folk. This thread is to keep you all up to date, and to receive your feedback and critique.

The UFO page on writerlot (basically this, on there)

The current online works are as follows;

Alien invasion 1
Alien invasion 2: Firefight
Alien invasion 3: Paradigm Shift
Alien Invasion 4: Wings and Wisdom
Alien Invasion 5: Little Heroes
Alien Invasion 6: Mystery
Alien Invasion 7: Webs
Alien Invasion 8: The Crypt
Alien Invasion 9: Sacrifice
Alien Invasion 10: Rout
Alien Invasion 11: Revelations
Alien Invasion 12: Beyond Hope
Alien Invasion 13: In Hiding
Alien Invasion 14: The Enemy Within
Alien Invasion 15: Empty Threat
Alien Invasion 16: Things Fall Apart
Alien Invasion 17: Nowhere to Hide
Alien Invasion 18: No Other Options
Alien Invasion 19: Off Balance
Alien Invasion 20: I Wants Fartface and Sweetie
Alien Invasion 21: 8 Minutes To Death
Alien Invasion 22: Poisoned Air
Alien Invasion 23: The Centre of Everything

Book Two

Alien Invasion II: Chapter One
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Two
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Three
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Four
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Five
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Six
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Seven
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Eight
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Nine
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Ten
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Eleven
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Twelve
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Thirteen
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Fourteen
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Fifteen
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Sixteen
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Seventeen
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Eighteen
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Nineteen
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Twenty
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Twenty-One
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Twenty-Two
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Twenty-Three
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Twenty-Four
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Twenty-Five
Alien Invasion II: Chapter Twenty-Six


More to come!

*News*

Gary's away at a meeting with the Writerlot/Firedance crew - hopefully putting in a good word for the books.
« Last Edit: September 02, 2013, 01:21:36 am by Bonzo »

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: PHALANX supreme edition
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2012, 02:33:35 am »
I'm an avid reader, and always enjoy a good novel, so I definitely will be looking forward to it.

Oh wait, that means I have to wait two weeks for the next part :(

I'm not trying to hurry you, I know writing a good story must take its time

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: PHALANX supreme edition
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2012, 03:33:49 am »
Very nice, i like the tone you guys give it :D kudos to you two

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: Now updating every Sunday!
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2012, 05:29:48 pm »
Hello, people!
Bonzo has twisted my arm and applied forks to me eyes until I agreed to work on a piece for every sunday. Actually, we're having a laugh - I've never worked in collaboration before and he's absolutely bursting with clever ideas.
Thanks for the feedback - and for this whole, inspirational project.

Grins: Gary

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: Now updating every Sunday!
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2012, 08:45:05 pm »
Pah. "clever ideas" indeed. All I did was play 2.4 through! By the time we're finished the game will be complete with a zillion mods and be the biggest thing on the internet. THEN will you promise to play it through?

Oh the readers are going to be in for quite the experience... heh heh heh.

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: Now updating every Sunday!
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2012, 09:48:20 pm »
Hello people!
Bonzo and I have worked like mad... You have 17 more chapters to come - one every sunday on http://writerlot.net/writerlot.htm
We've had a ball and the ending surprised even us. We've loved doing this - and I'm currently talking to my publisher. If they go ahead - it'll get full editorial treatment, and be published as a book.
This will be a free Kindle etc, download for all of you, (I'll negotiate how long they're prepared to do this - but keep you informed and forewarned) and then be published as a paperback too.
If they like it, if you like it, it could go on and on.
Thank you so much for your comments and this opportunity to create some really kickass battle scenes.  ;D Oops, no spoilers now...  :-X

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: Now updating every Sunday!
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2012, 07:50:43 pm »
Herp derp forgot to update last week like a fool, fixed now.
Oh, I've meant to post about this for some time, but I always get distracted reading your great work and end forgetting: this forum doesn't notify when a post is edited, if you also made a post when you update, it would be better, we don't really mind some double posting

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: Now updating every Sunday!
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2012, 03:59:57 pm »
I'm new to the site, drawn here by the story telling.
Episode eight http://www.writerlot.net/gary0058.htm is up today and even though you've gone from fortnightly to weekly, I'm still tapping my foot waiting for the next one.

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: Now updating every Sunday!
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2012, 05:02:28 pm »
Another one who found his way here from WriterLot. Good stories those, now to investigate the rest of the site.

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: Now updating every Sunday!
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2012, 12:29:09 pm »
These stories get more and more awesome as they go. Can't wait for next one as soon as I end reading previous =)

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: Now updating every Sunday!
« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2012, 02:23:20 pm »
Part nine is up!

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: Now updating every Sunday!
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2012, 06:07:48 pm »
The easing of the craving is very short-lived. As soon as I read one episode I *desperately want* the next one.

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: Now updating every Sunday!
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2012, 12:25:10 am »
Part ten's up - apparently yesterday... nobody tells me nuffin'

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: Now updating every Sunday!
« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2012, 06:32:08 am »
These are pretty fantasfic. (hah, get it, fan-tas-fic?)

Terrible puns aside, I'm really looking forward to the upcoming chapters.

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Re: The FanFic project news and feedback thread: Now updating every Sunday!
« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2012, 08:29:03 pm »
Maackey, you're hilolrious. (see I put 'lol' inside the word... what have I become)

Revelations is up on writerlot!