Everyone denies that I am a genius - but no one ever called
me one! - Orson Welles
That may well be true, that oh so self-effacing sound bite,
but we all know that it isn’t really. Orson Welles. Let us say it again: Orson
Welles. It feels good just to utter his name.
Orson Welles, then, is often cited as the most influential
man in cinematic history, indeed, his most celebrated work, Citizen Kane, is
widely regarded as the Best Film Ever Made. That statement is, of course,
completely true. Revolutionary in its day, timeless in its brilliance; Citizen
Kane is both scholastically and populously celebrated as a work of
uncompromising genius.
It is only fitting then, that critics, practitioners and the
drooling masses alike use this cinematic tour
de force as the barometer with which to judge all other cultural products. Nirvana’s
In Utero is the Citizen Kane of
popular-early-90s-guitar-rock. Jon Ronson’s The
Psychopath Test is the Citizen Kane of left-of-field-humorous-investigative-journalism.
What then, by the same leaps of logic, is the Citizen Kane of video games? Does
it even exist? It has to, doesn’t it?
I’ve created a work of player-driven fiction to explore this
very topic. In it, you play the part of Orson Welles himself as he explores the
personal ramifications of creating the Greatest Cultural Artefact Ever. ‘Players’
have never before been given this level of access to the great man himself, and
YatCKoVG offers an unprecedented look at the world through the eyes of the
greatest visionary to have ever lived.
So join me, please, as each of us becomes The Citizen Kane of
Video Games.
"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!" - Orson
Welles
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