abstract
| - The Chrono Trigger Novel Project is an online project founded and managed by Wayne Kramer. The goal of the project is to publish an officially sanctioned novel based on the 1995 RPG video game Chrono Trigger. The project was started by Wayne Kramer, who previously worked as an executive in his family's medical equipment business and now runs a business of his own in the same field.(1) His public LinkedIn profile reveals that he also spent a few years working in the field of promotional and licensed products, which included working with brands like Garfield, Felix the Cat, Legends of Oz, and private membership clubs, before returning to the medical sector. His first manuscript was started in 1996, and as of yet the novel remains uncompleted.(2) The Novel History page of his website indicates that the story has effectively been completely rewritten at least twice, at least in part due to a number of challenges he describes as having faced in doing a proper game-to-novel conversion. A select number of the video game’s fans have assisted him in this project by editing his writing, providing fan-represented consultation on a number of the game's subjects, and past work on efforts to get petition signatures to convince Square-Enix to allow the manuscript's eventual publication.
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