To honour the launch of the Bedlam paperback RedBedlam, in conjunction with AlienWare, has unveiled a gamers’ dream competition prize an AlienWare X51 – the ultimate rig to play PC games on.
To win, all people have to do is share the first chapter of Christopher Brookmyre’s new book ‘Bedlam’ on his official site located here.
The first prize has a latest generation i7 processor giving you more power for those demanding gaming episodes, along with an AMD R9 270 2GB Graphics card this ‘rig’ will handle even the most advanced games with a smile. Also up for grabs are six A2 concept art posters signed by Christopher Brookmyre for the runners up.
In addition, the developer RedBedlam has posted its first blog on the progression of development of the eagerly awaited Bedlam game.
Developed in association with Standfast Interactive, the generation-spanning FPS takes players into a unique world of action and intrigue, visiting a range of genres old and new, from arcade platformer classics to modern RTS and shooter environments, all from a first person perspective and with a smattering of Brookmyre’s trademark dark humour.
The videogame Bedlam mirrors the events from the book. The plot sees the player, a regular man with a regular job, subjected to a variety of tests only to wake in a videogame world in which he is not in fact the mythical hero so often seen in gaming, but a grunt designed purely to be cannon fodder for someone else. In attempting to find out how this has happened and what strange space he is in, the player progresses through a variety of familiar gaming worlds, relentlessly pursued by an enigmatic predator, an organisation known as Integrity that will be rid of him at all costs...
Bedlam, the novel, is available in paperback now in all good book stores. With the game set to appear on Steam in the summer of 2014 and with another two novel / game tie-ins planned, the partnership between RedBedlam and Brookmyre looks set to take the gaming world by storm, with a new direction in plot-driven game design.
