Game talk

This is the catch-all category for stuff about games and game design. It easily makes up the vast majority of the site’s content. If you are looking for something specific, I highly recommend looking into the tags used on the site instead. They can narrow down the hunt immensely.

Games as Art

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May 301999
 

The essay on Video games, or online worlds, as art is finally up. You can find it under Gaming/Misc Writings. I’ve already started wondering in my head what snippet the VaultNetwork will excerpt, since they seem to visit this site with disturbing regularity. 🙂

(Guys, I suggest paragraph four)…

For those few of you who visit because of the music section– I am in the studio! I’ve got a CD’s worth of basic tracks recorded now, and will be doing overdubs over the next few weeks. I hope to get some friends of mine in. The material ranges from fingerstyle instrumentals to blues and folk rock, with basic tracks done “live in the studio.” Stretch Williams is producing. Once it’s done, I’ll see about putting up MP3s on the website. I’m pretty excited, and it’s made a great break from just doing game design all day.

Virtual Words Presentation

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Apr 201999
 

I’m giving a presentation entitled Virtual Worlds: A Live Interactive Presentation as part of a monthly series of programs organized by the Austin Museum of Art. It will be taking place at On the Avenue (823 Congress Ave) this Thursday, April 22nd, at 6pm. You need tickets, but I don’t know the details of this or if it is patrons only or what.

This does mean I will miss the regular UO House of Commons chat! 🙁 I will also see about putting up an essay form of what I’ll be talking about (“computer games as art” anyone?)

GDC

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Mar 261999
 

GDC went great, loads of fun. Lots of attendance at the various online game sessions, including the ones I ran. I picked up several new laws from Jonathan Baron which are now on the Laws page, and I spent a lot of time hanging out with the guys who are doing Asheron’s Call. Also added a few laws of my own to the page.

More GDC Info

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Mar 131999
 

Realized that I dropped the info on the GDC presentation, so here it is again: at GDC I will be running a roundtable with Rich Vogel (producer of UO, former producer for Might & Magic Online and Meridian 59) on the “Laws of Massively Multiplayer Online Worlds.”

The roundtable will be run during Classic GDC, on Wednesday & Thursday at 10am, and on Friday at 11:30am.

I’ve added a new Misc Writing under the gaming section, dealing with the phenomenon of selling virtual property for real money.

GDC News

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Mar 121999
 

Turns out that not only will I be doing the roundtable at GDC, but I will also be helping out Dr Amy Jo Kim and Dr Amy Bruckman at their tutorial session on Building Online Communities.

This will run all day on Tuesday. Maybe I’ll see you there!

Also, I added a new Law from Damion Schubert to the Laws of Online World Design.

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