My favorite story
The author of my favorite story is dead. I found out about it yesterday.
The first time I read his story was more than 5 years ago. I was reading it on my phone. I liked this story so much, each character had so much personality and charm. It felt like I was traveling along them. I was living those crazy adventures and facing the obstacles with them.
The story was well-written and I was attached to the character. So naturally I was quickly obsessed about this story.
I loved to discover each character's backstory. I loved that you had to earn their trust in order for them to open-up. You could play the game in dozen of different ways. I discover new lore even today.
Magium is a very important story to me. It helped me through tough times. It made me forget my own problems for a moment
The brother of the author wrote a Reddit post to announce his death. This post made my heart sink. Apparently he found a note of the author saying "I am sorry, I had cancer".
He had cancer.
His mother and brother want to help the community to achieve his story. There were actually a lot of activity. Someone even made a PC port of the game. The story was now on windows, mac and even linux.
I downloaded the game, and I closed the subreddit. I don't plan on opening it again until I catch up with all the story. To avoid being spoiled. To truly finish the story, once or twice.
I just understood that what Derek Sivers said is true.
"The most valuable real estate in the world is the graveyard. There lie millions of half-written books, ideas never launched, and talents never developed. Most people die with everything still inside of them. "
The author of Magium has actually decided to put his creations in the world. Maybe he was afraid to publish each chapter, maybe he didn't liked how the UI looked or he wondered if the chapter was worthy of being published. But he did it anyway and at least one person really liked his story. I really liked his story.
But what about my creations?
My own creations and ideas were never allowed in the world. I never allowed them to exist. Everything is stuck in my head. If I happened to die tomorrow, I would bring all of my stories and ideas with me in the emptiness.
I don't want that to happen.
I need to create. I don't know when my life will end, but I want to give a chance to my creations to outlive me. Even if it is for a small moment. So that maybe one of my creation could also change someone's life.
Anyway. If you don't know about Magium, I really think that you should read it. Also thanks to everybody who is trying to keep the story alive. Especially the brother and the mother of the author.
This post is a tribute for the author of one of my favorite story. Rest in peace Cristian Mihailescu.