Comments on: Talkin’ bout Innovation http://grandtextauto.org/2005/04/06/talkin-bout-innovation/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Ian Bogost http://grandtextauto.org/2005/04/06/talkin-bout-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-39067 Ian Bogost Thu, 07 Apr 2005 02:49:38 +0000 /?p=744#comment-39067 I presented at this event, as did Chris Crawford, who's been traversing the halls of GTxA lately. The developers you're referring to are Aureia Harvey and Michaël Samyn. They are charming, wonderful people who've made a beautiful game, 8. I Empathize with their struggle, but their funding hopes are very large (>€2 million), perhaps unreasonably large to expect industry or investor support for such a "risky" project. For the record, I've developed a much more subtle reading of JFK Reloaded since this event, and I'll be presenting that as part of my talk at the upcoming conference <a href="http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/CommandLines/">Command Lines: The Emergence of Governance in Global Cyberspace</a>. That event also features game researchers Richard Bartle, Ted Castronova, Greg Lastowka, and T.L. Taylor. I presented at this event, as did Chris Crawford, who’s been traversing the halls of GTxA lately. The developers you’re referring to are Aureia Harvey and Michaël Samyn. They are charming, wonderful people who’ve made a beautiful game, 8. I Empathize with their struggle, but their funding hopes are very large (>€2 million), perhaps unreasonably large to expect industry or investor support for such a “risky” project.

For the record, I’ve developed a much more subtle reading of JFK Reloaded since this event, and I’ll be presenting that as part of my talk at the upcoming conference Command Lines: The Emergence of Governance in Global Cyberspace. That event also features game researchers Richard Bartle, Ted Castronova, Greg Lastowka, and T.L. Taylor.

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