The King (of Fighters) And I

Dec 06, 2006 05:09

I failed to retrieve KOF06/MI2. I want KOFXI fairly badly. The fighting gamer in me is returning to life, after a long subversion by FFXI. Breaking the chains of that game would do me so much good.

The level of detail SNK puts into the extras that come with the game, the bios, the backgrounds, the BGMs, the voice actors returning every year, etc, has made this game an immersive experience that has followed me through the years. I can think back to a KOF game and remember what was going on in my life that year, or think back to a time in the last 10 years and remember which KOF I was playing at the time. The massive roster and the personal connection I feel to the characters is what makes KOF fodder for the storyteller in me.

I've been out of full-scale writing for a long time, but even so, I've been toning and practicing my art, because I still aspire to hit #1 on the New York Times Bestsellers list one day. I realized recently however, that rather than trying to produce my magnum opus out of the gate, a strategic retreat may have been a better way of going about things, and so my plan changed to one of getting myself a college degree so I could become employable, working on smaller projects as I go, to get my name out there.

At the present time I have plans for submissions to several gaming and comic book productions, and a general idea for a website to house my writings and musings, hoping that a body of well written work that shows off the power of my imagination and my mental word cruncher would help get me a job in writing, published, or otherwise funded for what I really want to do-- write novels.

Fanfiction has been a gateway for me to do that. I've been thinking a lot lately about my story, Nightmare Symbiosis, which I wrote for nearly three years off and on. I recently picked through Google results for those keywords, not clicking any links, simply staring at the small preview segments featuring my keywords under each URL. I was amazed by these small, fragmentary comments, and how positively my story is remembered, often hailed as the best or one of the best, an example to follow.

I began to realize that what I had set out to do was already in motion. My name and my writing is known, appreciated, and remembered throughout the Street Fighter and King of Fighters community. Perhaps if I factor a return to fanfiction into my plans, all the partial comments I read lamenting that I never finished that story will be nullified.

Can KOF, a game that has meant so much more to me than just the quarters I poured into it, also be a key that opens this cell I'm in?
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