Huge Guts

Ok, so i’m just back into town, and i have much, much to say, but this is quick and doesn’t require much of a write-up, but Warren Spector has a blog: http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/

The name kind of hints at it and the writing proves it that it’s definitely focused on the new studio, although he does have the usual drops into self-deprecation and analysis that are the hallmarks of a new blog getting its feet. Still, he also drops a lot of insight into his working process, and it is *very* awesome to see such a well-respected and championing game designer talking so openly about himself, his work, and his company. the stuff about junction point also functions as excellent PR, btw, to any corp-types who are listening.

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hi!

just back from a week of high-momentum information acquisition. i talked to people about things and also stuff.

I will start with some people:

mark ‘danger’ chen, to whom i owe the idea of talking about the people i ran into. i was foisted upon mark as the GLS students went to dinner on a boat to celebrate the end of the conference, and it was a totally fortuitous.  Mark listened to me ramble a bunch, shared a great meal, and shares a special bond with over the roleplaying opportunity afforded to evil jedi on the wookie home planet Kashyyyk  in the original KOTOR. the secret here is that encountering the Prisoner’s Dilemma is more complicated than it looks.  I am really curious about his work;

Se4n Dunc4n: made fun of me a lot. but his work (with constance and it looks like david simkins, beth king and barbara johnson too) is so exciting:looking at  the ‘theorycrafting’ side of wow players as a kind of scientific literacy (first off, the models for scientific literacy are something i’d never heard of and are really interesting; but moreover, min/maxing really is where i got used to math and there are a lot of interesting questions brought up with this). he still made fun of me though.

Lauren Silberman: future classmate! we compared many notes and kind of hung out by default for a while on friday, which ended up being really nice because we both had a lot of the same things on our minds. Her undergraduate work with the GLS group at Madison seems to have prepped her really well for the greater conversations, and the work she wants to take on is a really neat juncture of some things that i don’t know about; that’s one of the really exciting things about the CMS program. like stepping into a party with a wide net of DJs, i’m getting a pleasurable juggling of the novel and familiar, old and new, me and dia..

also, “pleasurable juggling”. sorry.

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