A movie of my keynote at Living Game Worlds IV is up now. You can learn about the weird connections I see between The Old 97, banjos, copyright lawsuits, pop music, cellphones in Kenya, and molecular biology. Oh, and virtual worlds, of course.
Towards the end, I show a lot of pictures of Metaplace worlds from a few months ago. 🙂
There are also lots of presentations and sessions and panels up — I highly recommend the pioneers panel, but honestly, it was a great conference, they were all good.
The “Theory of Fun” website is down, caught between two webhosts, and has been for a while (with the book out of print, it hasn’t been a priority to sort out). But I keep getting requests for the materials that were hosted there and not here, so here they are.
David J Bailey has a nice discussion of my Living Game Worlds keynote up, in which he asks the question posed in the post title.
And there’s another take here from Matt Kelland.
And finally, this brief take at The Unexamined Life.
We saw some of the demos on our lunch break and returned in the evening for the keynote from Raph Koster. Mr. Koster was the lead designer for Ultima Online and a creative force behind Star Wars Galaxies. He prepared a delightful keynote taking us from old train yards in Spencer, NC to folk singing to the decline of the opera; always making interesting analogies to the games industry. I’m going to ask him if the video of the broadcast was recorded and if possible, get it up on YouTube. It was definitely worth hearing and has been the first thing in my life to make me miss college.
I’ll try to get my slides up tomorrow.
Here’s the info on the streams for Living Game Worlds IV, so those who aren’t here in Atlanta can attend virtually!
Or the early morning flight, at any rate. Am off to Living Game Worlds IV — which is still taking walk-in registrations. (And yes, I just got back home a day ago).
Sorry for the low blog rate this past week. It was nice to be mostly offline, though. 🙂
