[game_preservation] 2008 Whitepaper

[Henry Lowood]

Alan,

yeah, I was just thinking of using a virtual world as a kick-off 
meeting space to set an agenda, then moving the actual collaboration 
to a wiki or Google Docs or something of that sort.   Xfire offers a 
good option, too, either for text or voice chat.

Henry

At 12:55 PM 4/23/2008, Alan Au wrote:


>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

>

>

>

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>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 <http://bubbl.us>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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