Janet Murray's Powerpoints
Here are the Powerpoints from Janet Murray's talk at the ZML on April 2, "Making Steven Cry."
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March 28, 2006
March 27, 2006
Will Wright guest Editor of April Wired
Check out this month's Wired Magazine. Will Wright is the guest editor and has a terrific article:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/wright.html
March 15, 2006
MASSIVE: Multiplayer Game Summit, UC Irvine, April 20
For info and registration, visit:
http://www.isr.uci.edu/events/massive/
MASSIVE: Research Summit on the Future of Networked Multiplayer Games
April 20, 8:30am-7:30pm
Calit2 Building
University of California Irvine
MASSIVE will engage 25 speakers and Approximately 80 registrants from industry and academia in a dialog about the future design, technical and cultural challenges presented by massively multiplayer games, current and future research agendas from both industry and academia, and case studies and future models for industry academia collaboration.
Featured speakers include:
Raph Koster, Sony Online Entertainment
Jack Emertt and Clarinda Merripen, Cryptic Studios
Bob Moore, PARC
From CTIN:
Celia Pearce (Conference Producer)
Tracy Fullerton
Julian Bleecker
Jacki Morie
March 11, 2006
The Word
For those who missed it, In honor of the game's 73rd anniversary, Monopoly was featured as The Word on one of last week's episodes of the Colbert Report. Check it out at:
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/the_word/index.jhtml
March 09, 2006
Get Paid to Play!
Forterra, a spin-off of the company that created There.com, is looking for role-players to participate in some in-world role-playing exercises. This is a PAID GIG, so this is a PLAY GAMES FOR MONEY type of deal. If interetssed, go to:
http://www.forterrainc.com/jobs/jobs-actor.html
Tell them Artemesia from There sent you!
March 06, 2006
Dialog on TerraNova
Please check out the conversation intiated today by Nick Yee about both our articles in the inaugural issue of Games & Culture:
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2006/03/play_as_product.html#comment-14737842
Games for Change
Here is the link for Games for Change, the group that promotes social actvism: Games for Change
IGDA Indistry Demographics Report
I don't know if anyone has had a look at the IGDA report on workforce demographics in the game industry that was released last October, but it can be found at:
http://www.igda.org/diversity/report.php
In addition to the report, I also highly recommend reading the Comments Report. A quick survey of this document explains a lot about why the game industry is 88.3% and 83.3% white.