Byeard Maggott: An Obituary
From AllExperts.Com:
Byeard Maggott (aka Mark Argyle) was one of the principal authors of the famous Operation CWAL writing group. He created the fictional Maggottonians, beings with a taste for violence and hyper technology. This fictional group became even more popular with the pre-podcast Internet radio show, "The Maggott Show". In 2004 he founded the game company called Ghazpork Industrial and created two games: Dying Lights, an innovative card game similar to Twilight Imperium in execution; and Star Thugs, a humorous sci-fi game that received critical acclaim.
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Today, at 2:30, the police found Mark Argyle's body inside his car. He left the suicide note on his computer. He was 29.
Its difficult for me to put exactly how I feel. This group, Operation CWAL, this organization had become something far more than a writing guild over the years. It had become, in its own way, a manner of a family, a clan, and association that had in so many ways, come to affect my life in a permanent way. And DER MAGGOCH was truly one of our luminaries, one of the greatest artists and geniuses that I had the pleasure of knowing.
We have many laudable writers, but there are exceeding few who managed as much inspiration and craftmanship as DER MAGGOCH did in so many of his works: he was a singer, a radio show host, a designer of gamers, and a creator of worlds. He had an imagination that broke almost all the conventions of writing and a charisma that in many ways, served as the lodestone that brought us together in the first place. He was truly one of the greatest humorists that I had ever known, and unfortunately, like so many of the other great humorists of our world, his inspiration came from a dark place that ultimately came to claim him.
OperationCWAL, and myself, has truly lost someone that can only only never be replaced, but not even approached. The world is a darker place without him, but in a way, he had grasped immortality in the way that every artist does. For in my memory, and in the memories of all those who had come to cherish him and his work, he will live on forever with his dark rumbling voice and his ironic commentary of life, the universe, and everything.
GHAZPORK LIVES.
Finally, for those who were his fans, he left a final gift for us:
http://forum.cwal.net/message.php?p=82305
Byeard Maggott (aka Mark Argyle) was one of the principal authors of the famous Operation CWAL writing group. He created the fictional Maggottonians, beings with a taste for violence and hyper technology. This fictional group became even more popular with the pre-podcast Internet radio show, "The Maggott Show". In 2004 he founded the game company called Ghazpork Industrial and created two games: Dying Lights, an innovative card game similar to Twilight Imperium in execution; and Star Thugs, a humorous sci-fi game that received critical acclaim.
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Today, at 2:30, the police found Mark Argyle's body inside his car. He left the suicide note on his computer. He was 29.
Its difficult for me to put exactly how I feel. This group, Operation CWAL, this organization had become something far more than a writing guild over the years. It had become, in its own way, a manner of a family, a clan, and association that had in so many ways, come to affect my life in a permanent way. And DER MAGGOCH was truly one of our luminaries, one of the greatest artists and geniuses that I had the pleasure of knowing.
We have many laudable writers, but there are exceeding few who managed as much inspiration and craftmanship as DER MAGGOCH did in so many of his works: he was a singer, a radio show host, a designer of gamers, and a creator of worlds. He had an imagination that broke almost all the conventions of writing and a charisma that in many ways, served as the lodestone that brought us together in the first place. He was truly one of the greatest humorists that I had ever known, and unfortunately, like so many of the other great humorists of our world, his inspiration came from a dark place that ultimately came to claim him.
OperationCWAL, and myself, has truly lost someone that can only only never be replaced, but not even approached. The world is a darker place without him, but in a way, he had grasped immortality in the way that every artist does. For in my memory, and in the memories of all those who had come to cherish him and his work, he will live on forever with his dark rumbling voice and his ironic commentary of life, the universe, and everything.
GHAZPORK LIVES.
Finally, for those who were his fans, he left a final gift for us:
http://forum.cwal.net/message.php?p=82305