Wes Platt is still loving sharing stories. Back when Wes was a kid in elementary school, Wes would ask classmates to give Wes three things to weave into stories. If someone said bell, water, lizard well, Wes would cook up a story about a reptile scrambling along a rock wall to reach a ringing bell in a tower overlooking a lake. Then Wes got into journalism, where real-world events in weird Florida presented Wes with seemingly endless combinations: UFO, beach, deputy and carpet, corpse, trunk and commissioner, briefcase, handgun, just to name a few. In 1994, with the rise of the internet, Wes’s passion for sharing stories pivoted toward online text-based games MUDs. A few years later, Wes started OtherSpace an original-theme space opera storytelling game inspired by Star Wars, Babylon 5, Blade Runner, and Dune (among many others). In 2009, Wes was part of the team that launched Fallen Earth a post-apocalyptic MMORPG set in the Grand Canyon Province. Last year, after a 10-year run, Wes’s beloved Traveler towns scored their last deals and the Cleaners fulfilled their final contracts GamersFirst shut down the servers to (maybe?) work on a reboot. In 2021, after the hellish year of 2020, Wes is branching back out into non-fiction column writing (see the return of Junction 54) and sharing photos of Wes’s dog and the rest of the family – as well as images from around Durham.
Find Wes Platt online:
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Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/pirahnabrother1
