Comments on: First Person New Readings http://grandtextauto.org/2005/05/02/first-person-new-readings/ 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 By: noah http://grandtextauto.org/2005/05/02/first-person-new-readings/comment-page-1/#comment-50913 noah Sun, 08 May 2005 03:05:49 +0000 /?p=778#comment-50913 Cesar, it sounds like you might want to start with the work of Grahame Weinbren. Check out this documentation of his <a href="http://mfaphoto.schoolofvisualarts.edu/video/faculty/grahame.html">Sonata.</a> Also, ebr doesn't operate an online forum, but you can send responses to ebr /at/ altx.com. Cesar, it sounds like you might want to start with the work of Grahame Weinbren. Check out this documentation of his Sonata.

Also, ebr doesn’t operate an online forum, but you can send responses to ebr /at/ altx.com.

]]> By: cesar http://grandtextauto.org/2005/05/02/first-person-new-readings/comment-page-1/#comment-50574 cesar Sat, 07 May 2005 11:31:58 +0000 /?p=778#comment-50574 I bought the book last summer, and enjoyed it. Is there any online forum where one can discuss interactive drama topics? I only find blogs and journals... that's not _interactive_ !! ;^) (I believe electronicbookreview is not a forum open to posting, although I might be wrong, as I admit I don't get its UI at all :-) Since I didn't find such a forum, I ask here a question I have: Do you know of anybody who has researched the topic of how movies could step into computers while keeping a fixed (non-interactive and single-path) narrative, but perhaps adding new ingredients to the film language from the capabilities that computers have? I'm thinking in visual expression from real-time graphics, perhaps some kind of visual interaction (but not story interaction). I ask this question because I somehow have the feeling that the computer could become an interesting media for showing movies in a different way we're used to, even if the narrative keeps being fixed and non-interactive. I bought the book last summer, and enjoyed it. Is there any online forum where one can discuss interactive drama topics? I only find blogs and journals… that’s not _interactive_ !! ;^)

(I believe electronicbookreview is not a forum open to posting, although I might be wrong, as I admit I don’t get its UI at all :-)

Since I didn’t find such a forum, I ask here a question I have:

Do you know of anybody who has researched the topic of how movies could step into computers while keeping a fixed (non-interactive and single-path) narrative, but perhaps adding new ingredients to the film language from the capabilities that computers have? I’m thinking in visual expression from real-time graphics, perhaps some kind of visual interaction (but not story interaction).

I ask this question because I somehow have the feeling that the computer could become an interesting media for showing movies in a different way we’re used to, even if the narrative keeps being fixed and non-interactive.

]]> By: noah http://grandtextauto.org/2005/05/02/first-person-new-readings/comment-page-1/#comment-49990 noah Wed, 04 May 2005 15:08:47 +0000 /?p=778#comment-49990 Well, I know it's only beginning to come to fruition, but our hope is that we'll be using digital media to accomplish things that the print book can't accomplish. So, for example, our hope is that there will in time be many responses to the book at ebr, and that these will be interconnected with the essays in an interesting structure. So, this was one of the reasons for not providing a PDF to download and print - if people want print, the book is an efficient method of accomplishing that. We're looking to the web to accomplish something else... Well, I know it’s only beginning to come to fruition, but our hope is that we’ll be using digital media to accomplish things that the print book can’t accomplish. So, for example, our hope is that there will in time be many responses to the book at ebr, and that these will be interconnected with the essays in an interesting structure. So, this was one of the reasons for not providing a PDF to download and print – if people want print, the book is an efficient method of accomplishing that. We’re looking to the web to accomplish something else…

]]> By: greglas http://grandtextauto.org/2005/05/02/first-person-new-readings/comment-page-1/#comment-49989 greglas Wed, 04 May 2005 14:33:29 +0000 /?p=778#comment-49989 I bought a hard copy of First Person and I enjoyed reading it -- but if you'll put up with a tiny criticism from a respectful reader: both the online version and the book feel a little too fragmented. I know it is more than a little ironic to complain about the fragmented, ergodic, hypertextual, multi-voiced nature of a work that takes those qualities as its topics, but if you're going to put this online for free, I really wish there were a single PDF file I could download and print. In other words, I wish I could skip the interface -- I don't want to revisit the Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord just to hunt and gather interesting bloggish thought snippets. I bought a hard copy of First Person and I enjoyed reading it — but if you’ll put up with a tiny criticism from a respectful reader: both the online version and the book feel a little too fragmented.

I know it is more than a little ironic to complain about the fragmented, ergodic, hypertextual, multi-voiced nature of a work that takes those qualities as its topics, but if you’re going to put this online for free, I really wish there were a single PDF file I could download and print. In other words, I wish I could skip the interface — I don’t want to revisit the Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord just to hunt and gather interesting bloggish thought snippets.

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