[game_preservation] 2008 Whitepaper

[Alan Au]

I've used Google documents fairly successfully.  It's great for when you want to generate an actual document as the end product.  The drawback is that it's not really very good for real-time interaction.  Instant Messaging, Internet Relay Chat, or a Voice Over Internet program are all good options, and you can use them while simultaneously editing a shared document.

I recommend steering clear of virtual spaces (World of Warcraft or otherwise), as they incur a lot of processor and network overhead, and you still have to comb through the transcripts later to build the actual document.  I mean, you could run them windowed or in the background, but that defeats the purpose of using a graphical front-end.  Then again, use of games as ad-hoc chat clients is a time-honored tradition. (I heard an anecdote that Command & Conquer was used in the pre-IM days to get around lights-out restrictions at military academies.)

I'm not sure what I can offer content-wise.  That is, I probably know a bit about the issues, just that I haven't gone through the process of trying to organize my thoughts yet.

- Alan


Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:36:42 +0100
From: andrew at aarmstrong.org
To: game_preservation at igda.org
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] 2008 Whitepaper






  


I wish I knew an interactive one, definately something to check out - I
mean, a whitepaper cannot be written collaboratively, but can be
checked collaboratively. I guess sections will be written up by people
then expanded/edited by everyone, since it isn't a single-person
whitepaper. This would be good for the editing and expansion parts,
especially if it could be done in short meetings with everyone having
read the section beforehand.



Andrew



Captain Commando wrote:
What about using bubbl.us as a central brainstorming
document? This is a neat tool that uses interactive brainstorming in
Flash and you can share it with others. I started playing around with
it and it is fairly easy to use. The only problem is I don't think you
can watch it develop in realtime.

  

Another option might be something like Google docs and spreadsheets,
but this has similar issues. I'm also not as familiar with it, but it
would be useful when editing the White Paper itself.

  

-DM



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