http://grandtextauto.org/2004/08/24/welcome-mary-flanagan/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:44:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://grandtextauto.org/2004/08/24/welcome-mary-flanagan/comment-page-1/#comment-1632 andrew Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:02:08 +0000 /?p=435#comment-1632 Hi Mary, it's great you've decided to squeeze into these ripped-up bench seats with us, undoubtedly you'll be steering the discussion in some interesting new directions. Among your various projects, as Nick mentioned, Rapunsel is definitely something I'd love to hear more about. It's come up several times in discussions here over the past year (<a href="http://grandtextauto.org/2003/11/20/notable-new-research/">1</a> <a href="http://grandtextauto.org/2003/11/24/teaching-computation-as-an-expressive-medium/">2</a> <a href="http://grandtextauto.org/2003/05/30/artist-programmers-an-ongoing-discussion/">3</a> <a href="http://grandtextauto.org/2004/03/30/gdc-2004-impressions/">4</a> <a href="http://grandtextauto.org/2004/06/02/procedural-literacy-an-idea-whose-time-has-come-43-years-ago/">5</a>), and I've been trying to follow it ever since I first heard Ken gave a <a href="http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2003/03/04/the_destiny_of_games.html">passionate appeal</a> for procedural literacy at the 2003 GDC academic summit. It seems like a very challenging project in many ways, from gameplay design to interface to technical implementation. To my mind it's one of the coolest and important projects out there. To the extent you can talk about it, I'm very curious about what's working so far, what's not working, what are the open design questions. If by chance there's an early version available for us to play with, so we could give you feedback and inform the discussion, that'd be even better. Hi Mary, it’s great you’ve decided to squeeze into these ripped-up bench seats with us, undoubtedly you’ll be steering the discussion in some interesting new directions. Among your various projects, as Nick mentioned, Rapunsel is definitely something I’d love to hear more about. It’s come up several times in discussions here over the past year (1 2 3 4 5), and I’ve been trying to follow it ever since I first heard Ken gave a passionate appeal for procedural literacy at the 2003 GDC academic summit. It seems like a very challenging project in many ways, from gameplay design to interface to technical implementation. To my mind it’s one of the coolest and important projects out there. To the extent you can talk about it, I’m very curious about what’s working so far, what’s not working, what are the open design questions. If by chance there’s an early version available for us to play with, so we could give you feedback and inform the discussion, that’d be even better.

]]> http://grandtextauto.org/2004/08/24/welcome-mary-flanagan/comment-page-1/#comment-1631 nick Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:56:45 +0000 /?p=435#comment-1631 Welcome, Mary! I'm looking forward to hearing about <a href="http://www.rapunsel.org/">Rapunsel,</a> your recent art, and your perspective on whatever new things textual and gamey will be showing up online in the next few months. Welcome, Mary! I’m looking forward to hearing about Rapunsel, your recent art, and your perspective on whatever new things textual and gamey will be showing up online in the next few months.

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