The Gamesmaster
eBook - ePub

The Gamesmaster

My Life in the '80s Geek Culture Trenches with G.I. Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, and The Transformers

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Gamesmaster

My Life in the '80s Geek Culture Trenches with G.I. Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, and The Transformers

About this book

Flint Dille wrote your childhood. From his work on 80s cartoon classics like Transformers, G.I. Joe, the Garbage Pail Kids, and Inhumanoids to the interactive novels he wrote with Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons, Flint had a hand in many pockets of 80s popular culture.He's worked with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Frank Miller, Jack Kirby, and a raft of others as a writer, story editor, show runner, and/or producer of iconic entertainment in almost every medium. The Gamesmaster is Dille's memoir looking through his own unique story, his blend of pop culture, social history, and reportage about the groundbreaking 1980s, and the parts he and his colleagues, collaborators, employers, and friends played in making it a genuine Golden Age.

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Table of contents

  1. A Fascinating Collision in Geek Culture History
  2. Introduction
  3. Hollywood As It Was When I Got Here
  4. Kid Dropped in from the Twenty-Fifth Century
  5. Setting: The Eighties and the Monoverse
  6. Setting the Stage
  7. First Agent, Bushmills, and a Real Live Leprechaun
  8. My Call to Adventure
  9. Meeting a Wizard in a Medieval Tower in Anaheim
  10. Winter 1983
  11. Developing in Development
  12. “I Want You to Work on Some Action Show Ideas with Jack”
  13. First Script Ever
  14. Most Expensive Classroom Ever
  15. The Golden AshtrayAnimation 1983—Ruby-Spears
  16. The Twisted Trail of Thomas Radecki
  17. The Girl in the Polo Lounge
  18. The Post-College Era Ends
  19. Sucker Chase with the Lounge Lizard
  20. Meanwhile, Back at DDEC
  21. Enter the Robots
  22. Journey to the Fabled Land
  23. The Sanctus Sanctorum. Holy of Holies.
  24. The Loser Ex-BoyfriendOrAchievement Unlocked
  25. The Bold Claim, the Rallying Cry, the Paradigm Buster:
  26. Gen Con 1984
  27. “Real Fists”
  28. One Small Legacy of Lucasfilm
  29. The Death Procession of St. Bloodaxe
  30. Trophies and Talismans
  31. The Gamesmaster
  32. More Spankings Back at the Mansion
  33. The Reason the Title of This Book is The Gamesmaster
  34. “Eau de Cobra” and “Skeletons in the Closet”
  35. New Year’s Eve, 1984
  36. So, Where Are We on the Hero’s Journey?
  37. Not Sure If This Is Temptress or Muse or Just a Story I Want to Tell
  38. Switch to Transformers
  39. One Long Argument
  40. Meanwhile, Back at the DDEC Mansion
  41. 221B Stark Tower
  42. “Prime Target”
  43. The Battle for TSR
  44. Transformers: The Movie
  45. A Low Grade of Flint
  46. Mom Does My Taxes
  47. The Voltronic Galaxiter
  48. Movie Rewrites
  49. A Word from Our Sponsors
  50. Comic-Con When It Was Comic-Con
  51. Discovering Pulps at Comic-Con
  52. The Board Meeting
  53. The Magic Potions
  54. MOV’S Unfairly Named Porno House
  55. Writing Process
  56. Coopetition
  57. TF: The Movie Recording Sessions
  58. The Shit Story
  59. Inhumanoids
  60. The Strange Case of Hector Ramirez
  61. Steve Gerber’s Bulletin Board
  62. The Birth of Video-Game Narrative
  63. TF: The Movie Production/Post-Production
  64. Spring 1986
  65. Chris Latta (Collins)
  66. Thief in the Night, Blow-Up Over Carbombya, and Other Controversies
  67. GEN CON Revelation
  68. Transformers: The Movie Premiere
  69. Ixnay with the Lab CoatC-SPAN Midterm Election Coverage
  70. Buck Rogers
  71. Dumbass Brother with a Trust Fund
  72. Fall 1986/Winter 1987
  73. Visionaries
  74. The Sunbow LA Office Shuts Down
  75. Into the Garbage Pail
  76. 1987 COMIC-CONG.I. JOE Movie Launch Dinner
  77. Visionaries and Beyond
  78. It’s Not Going to Work
  79. The Magic Flight
  80. Aftermath
  81. Afterword
  82. Acknowledgments