We’re joined on the AI and Games podcast by Andy Kelly, a former games journalist and now PR manager at Devolver Digital, who is largely famous for being that guy who bangs on about Alien: Isolation on social media more than we do! You might remember Andy as a voice in our Alien: Isolation retrospective on the AI and Games YouTube channel in 2025.
Andy sits down with Tommy to talk about ‘Perfect Organism: The Assembly Cut’, a new version of his unofficial companion book about Creative Assembly’s horror game. There’s a lot of interesting stuff to talk about in this episode, including:
How Andy got screwed out of royalties from Unbound: the publisher of the original version of ‘Perfect Organism’
How the conversation around Alien has changed since the original book launched in 2024.
What to expect in the updated edition published by Lost in Cult.
How the 10 year anniversary of the game provided more info for the book.
Andy and Tommy muse about the recently released Alien: Isolation 2 trailer.
You can pre-order your copy of Perfect Organism: The Assembly Cut at
https://www.lostincult.co.uk/perfectorganism
You can find Andy Kelly over on Instagram and BlueSky:
https://www.instagram.com/ultrabrilliant/
https://bsky.app/profile/ultrabrilliant.xyz
Timestamps
[00:00] Preshow Stinger
[00:45] Intro
[01:10] Welcome!
[10:57] Andy's Alien Love Affair
[15:12] The Perfect Organism
[17:05] Why Update the Book?
[23:21] Alien is back in the conversation.
[25:32] Building an updated edition.
[29:30] Sponsored by AWS
[30:35] Revision or Expansion?
[38:10] Still Nothing Really Like It
[43:16] Alien: Isolation 2
[57:26] Final Book Plug
[59:03] Closing
