Selling Out

I guess in one sense today officially qualifies as the day I sold out.

It was an otherwise mundane day with the only major activity being me going down to the production house to attend one of those pre-production meetings where everyone sits down and talks about how the show is going to go, and of course, the reality is it won’t be anything like that. But meetings make people feel good, so I can see the psychological advantage of them. The other thing was going down a street right beside my old digs from four years back, and finding out said street had turned into an informal artists’ colony of sorts, with sculptors, potters, animators, photographers and painters all buying up or renting property in the area for some strange confluence of circumstance that only they understand.

However the selling out moment came when the Wife got a phone call asking her to come down for a meeting about the children’s comic we’re working on. It turns out that for whatever reason, the publisher has decided to go ahead start cashing in on merchandising so a meeting has been set up with some coders/developers to start talking about designing a game.

So yeah, a comic I am writing is now being turned into a video game.

Of course, the reality is, it’s a cheesy kid’s comic that will never be seen outside of Singapore, and the game itself is likely going to be either some on-the-cheap flash game for a website or else a really crude, half-baked 2D arcade-mechanics-from-the-80′s affair on a CD-ROM maybe given away as a promotional item.

Still, never thought I’d see the day when something I wrote was turned into a game.

And before you even think to ask, NO, the publishers own all the rights, so we don’t see a dime of this. But then that’s Singapore for you. Creative people here are resources and little else.