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Give Me Head Productions Part #2 [June + July]
At the start of June, Give Me Head HQ looked like an office which had been sculptured into a monthlong rave. There were a number of employees who still didn’t have a clue what they were supposed to be doing. They would come to the office each morning, smoke a spliff and pretend they were…
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CEO Lawrence Cassidy’s Biography: Putting the Silly Con into Silicon
“Life is like a game of chess. It goes on too long.”–CEO Cassidy Lawrence Cassidy is something of a maverick. Before the Give Me Head madness, he had lived what most folks would call a privileged life. But Lawrence would beg to differ. His father, Malcolm Cassidy, took full advantage of the stock markets in…
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Cyberia District #6 Roadkill Boondocks and the Hell Fire Crew [With Footage]
The Roadkill Boondocks was clearly and shamelessly “inspired” by the Mad Max movies; specifically Beyond the Thunderdome which had not long been released. Visually speaking it is one of the most interesting districts. All that dirt and decay; it looks like a jolly summer holiday in the jaws of Death Valley. A crew of eight…
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Introducing Daddy Swank
“Even when I take a dump, my worshippers offer to buy the toilet bowl for extortionate prices.” –Daddy Swank If You Thought AI Art Was Taking the Piss… Daddy Swank is a non-playable character who owns the Swank Gallery; a crucial location in Cyberia where players can try to earn extra candy by buying and…
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Cyberia Location #2: The Swank Gallery
The Swank Gallery, located in the Pleasure Strip, is one of several almost prophetic concepts which the Give Me Head team accidentally came up with (for another example take a look at the visionary Candy Coins dreamt up by Myra Lippit). It was going to be a fully functioning marketplace for buying and selling weird…
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In Memory of Mitch Thorne 1950-1995 [With Footage]
After we wrote about his role in the short-lived Give Me Head special FX department, we received an anonymous email from somebody who claimed to have been close to Mitch Thorne before he sadly passed. While we can’t identify this person, the information they provided to us checks out, and so we are very grateful…
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Cyberian Retro Futuristic Tech and Gadgets #3 Cybervenom
In such a tech-rich genre as cyberpunk, where everyone is permanently staring at digital monitor screens and committing petty crimes, the Give Me Head team needed to get it right otherwise the whole project would sink. They all agreed that tech implants, personal computers (otherwise known as Ubercomputers in this universe), hackers and mercenary warbots…
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Cyberian Retro Futuristic Tech and Gadgets #2 The Ubercomputer [With Footage]
Another invention that the tech and gadgets team worked on was the Ubercomputer. Back in the summer of ’88, big things were happening in the computing world. The legendary Amiga 500 was ruining the social lives of adults and their children; Windows 2.0 had been released the year before, indicating just how much computers were…
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Cyberian Retro Futuristic Tech and Gadgets #1 The Skanna [With Footage]
A classic example of the Give Me Head employment strategy would begin with suddenly realising that such a monumental television series required specialist knowledge (for example futuristic technology design). CEO Cassidy would tell everyone to assign a “top team of titties” to it. Regardless of talent, specialist area (if applicable) or ability, the people who…
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Neon Nights in Cyberia: The Video Game That Nearly Caused a Mass Shooting
By mid-July the team was still on a high–both metaphorically and literally. CEO Lawrence Cassidy had spent a little over half of his inheritance in two and a half months (with approximately half of that spent on Rayful Edmond’s cocaine). Cassidy wasn’t really counting because he was incapable of it. For him, reality had turned…
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