Why Michel de Grammont?

[Marconi]

In my  website  article, I  asked a question: why Michel de Grammont?

Here on the forum, I will try to answer.
I didn't need to choose the main character for the game Sea Dogs: A Pirate's Story. It's just that when I was preparing to write the script, I realized I would be writing about Michel de Grammont, period. The game was released in 2008, and I dare to hope that the French storyline resonated with the corsairs of our time.
       Perhaps this borders on mysticism, but the main character found me himself. It is all the more strange because I have no connection to France, I have never studied French, and I have never been to the country, even just passing through.
      However, in some places, my destiny and Michel's did cross paths. In the '90s, I worked on fishing vessels of the USSR Ministry of Fisheries and visited the Caribbean. We entered the very heart of the Bermuda Triangle and saw the sargassum seaweed, which was easily ground up by our vessel's propellers.
      We missed each other by nearly four centuries, but perhaps that is for the best. I would not want to cross paths with the legendary Captain de Grammont when he was in a warlike mood.
      Especially since back then, he certainly didn't know yet that a guy from Ukraine would write scripts and dedicate twenty years of creative activity to books about him.

[JusticaR]

Once long ago I played Sea Dogs Pirate's History and I really liked the French line..
In my memory there are no more games from this series with such a well-developed plot and characters. With a big financial budget and features this game could have become a breakthrough, like the first Sea Dogs became in their time.

By the way, I consider it my duty to inform the scriptwriter, just in case if he does not follow the new projects of this franchise, that the agile guys from BlackMark Studio (game studio) essentially stole his plot for their new 2026 expansion, in the game called "Caribbean Legend" lol. My conclusions are based on the fact that information about the author of the storyline does not appear anywhere, although I searched for a long time.

[Aura]

The BlackMark Studio guys have zero creativity left, so they just take whatever is left unattended. It completely matches the style of the occupiers who looted toilets and washing machines from Ukrainian houses. That's just how they roll.


Anyway, Marconi, your books are so brilliant. You haven't lost a thing.