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Game Design » Presentations » Virtual Worlds Are (not) Folk Music

Virtual Worlds Are (not) Folk Music

 

This talk was given as a keynote at Living Game Worlds at Georgia Tech.

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Video is available on this Georgia Tech archive page. This talk is the one labeled “evening keynote.”

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