This forum went on for six years, with layers and layers of running jokes.Īt the time of the Kotaku piece, the game, originally released on CD-ROM was functionally unplayable on modern video game systems. “It was like ignoring the vegetable drawer of your fridge for a year, then opening it to find a bunch of very grateful sentient tomatoes busily working on their third opera,” Grahame told Kotaku. Users had continued on the story in the spirit of Adams. Six months later there were ten-thousand posts in the mock forum. Grahame kept the forum open for fans of the upcoming game, only to find later that Adams fans had taken this comic easter egg to heart.

Buried deep down in a page was a mock forum supposedly being written by the lower-level crew of the Titanic.

Living up to his reputation for seemingly infinite tardiness, Adams admitted just three weeks before the book’s deadline that he hadn’t written a thing, and in the end the novel Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic was written in a furious cascade of words by none other than Terry Jones (who claimed that he wrote the whole thing in the nude).Įven more interesting, Yoz Grahame, Digital Village’s web developer had been put in charge of creating the game’s promotional web presence. But also fun, as Monty Python’s Terry Jones and John Cleese both turn up among the voice actors, the former as a parrot, the latter as a doomsday bomb.Īn article in Kotaku from 2015 mentions a tie-in novel that Adams was to write himself, after first assigning co-writers Neil Richards, Debbie Barham, and Michael Bywater to the task.

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