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The Punks That Got Away
When rummaging around some files, we stumbled across a series of mugshots. Each came with a sheet of lined paper covered in time-faded unflattering scribbles. It was immediately obvious that these were drafts of playable characters; ones which were scrapped for being ridiculous or because there were issues with the actor. In this chapter we’re…
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The Shadowy Cyberia Council
In the grand scheme of things, we’re not sure where to place the Cyberia Council. Although it saw a fair bit of visual development in the early days (which explains why it’s all nice and shiny), it didn’t have much of a narrative purpose, not helped by the fact that there are no playable characters…
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How Would An Interactive Cyberpunk Television Series Even Work?
While piecing together these various documents and artefacts, we found ourselves returning to one important question: how would the interactive role-playing element even work? Having a weekly cyberpunk series which people at home can play along with sounds like the greatest concept in the entire world–the cultural equivalent of George Lemaître’s contribution to the Big…
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Cyberia Collectors’ Card #49 McPervis
“Stuff.” –McPervis District: Greaser Suburbs (maybe…) Occupation: This is the penultimate playable character in this collection. And just like Skidz, there’s nothing much to tell you. We suspect that McPervis was going to be a member of the greaser gang alongside Barry X et al. He probably loved muscle cars, drinking turnip cider, beating up…
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Cyberia Collectors’ Card #48 Skidz
“Awright, guv. Come an’ Worzel me fackin’ bag coz I only ‘ave t’ best Persians in tarn.” –Skidz District: Roadkill Boondocks (surely?) Occupation: This dipshit marks the beginning of a cruel end. The only information we have on this sad, playable character is–just to rub salt in the wounds–a resignation letter we’ve found dated August…
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Cyberia Collectors’ Card #46 Ted
“[Insert Whatever]” -Ted District: The Pleasure Strip Occupation: Who knows? We have virtually nothing to go on with this playable character. Ted’s more like an NPC from the Commodore 64 era; just some monotone polygon stain floating around an empty purple wasteland as it tries to hunt another monotone polygon stain that’s a different shape.…
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Cyberia Collectors’ Card #44 X-40-DD-9Y-1
“Beep beep kill beep beep” -X-40-DD-9Y-1 District: Little Amsterdam Occupation: Unknown. Although “unknown” sounds mysterious, we mean it literally. We have no idea who this fella is supposed to be and we can’t find any other related material. Based on his location in Cyberia, we suspect that he was going to be woven into the…
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Cyberia Collectors’ Card #43 Masher
“Brad will pay with his life for what he did to my beloved Fifi. But only after I’ve chopped his nuts off with a particularly blunt cleaver.” -Masher District: The Pleasure Strip Occupation: Brad Hunter. Masher is a loner who has spent the last few years of his life intent on avenging the death of…
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Cyberia Location #3 Cyberia Zoo [With Footage]
As we have seen elsewhere, when CEO Cassidy first saw his bank balance post-inheritance, he began to throw a ton of money at various early projects. The most expensive of the lot was the Cyberia Zoo. We have absolutely no clue why anyone would think this was a good idea. Such a location is wildly…
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Cyberia Collectors’ Card #40 Gibbo
“Comrade Nasty should be supreme leader because he’s not afraid to kill people for the cause. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.” –Gibbo District: Little Amsterdam Occupation: First Lieutenant of the Algorithm Saboteur Unit. Gibbo is the right-hand man of Ralph Nasty. He believes that Nasty is the only fella who can…
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