[game_preservation] 2008 Whitepaper

[Captain Commando]

Well, I started a document on bubbl.us with some basic ideas. I created an
IGDA user sig:

username: igdasig
password: preservation

The brainweb is currently in the collaborations folder. I don't know how
this will work though if we have lots of people working on it simultaneously
through the same account.

-DM

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:


>  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

>

>

> ------------------------------

>

> 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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