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The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks There certainly is a large amount of gaming news relating to Comedy Central’s cartoon character Stephen Colbert floating about these days, isn’t there? While we eagerly await the announcement of the world’s first video game based on a fake news personality, Stephen himself will be hobbing knobs with none other than game industry legend and Keeper of the Sacred Rattails Lord “Richard Garriott” British. British will be appearing on The Colbert Report this evening to discuss Operation Immortality, his DNA in space project that will eventually result in an evil Crecente clone army taking over the known universe. Luckily for us the question of “How do you really get to know a universe?” is still very much up in the air. Way up.
Be sure to set your favourite TV recording device to see if Colbert can possibly resist saying something about Garriott’s magnificent hair.
Or hit the Colbert Nation website for full episodes on the web. That’s what I do! -SB
No matter what eventually happens to Crecente’s DNA, be it used to create a clone army or otherwise, he’ll surely be in good company when his cells are committed to the International Space Station as part of NCSoft’s Operation Immortality. Best-selling author Tracy Hickman joins the cellular cast of the operation, his DNA travelling with Space Richard Garriott when he is launched into space on October 12th. Hickman is best known for co-authoring the original Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy with Margaret Weis. “Mankind is at its best whenever we set our vision to the stars,” Hickman said. “One of my first memories was of watching Alan Shepard fly his Mercury capsule atop a Redstone rocket. I have lived my entire life dreaming of space. ‘Operation Immortality’ is essentially a celebration of that same adventuring spirit and an offering of hope for the future. I am deeply honoured to participate.”
Not only will a swab of his DNA be included in the “Immortality Drive” but samples of his work as well, so the aliens will have something to read on the space toilet while waiting for our impending doom to propagate in their labs.
Last month NCSoft announced that they would be seeking out bits of DNA from gamers in order to shoot them off into space with Richard Garriott.
The idea is that Garriott is going to store digital versions of the DNA on a harddrive, codenamed the Immortality Drive, and store it in some dusty back corner of the International Space Station. This is all being done in case humanity gets wiped out and we need a human race reboot. Neat, Sci-Fi stuff.
Yesterday it became a little more real when I received a package in the mail. Inside? A DNA collection kit and papers to sign away my genetics to NCsoft, who I can’t help but notice don’t make any promises about not raising a Crecente Clone army or not populating mars with thousands of Crecetient beings.
Of course I want to send off my DNA, if only so I can tell people that not only have I been to outer space and visited the International Space Station, but that I’m still there.
Freaky DNA kit pics on the jump.
