Re: Phrontesterion

["Andrew Stern" <andrew@interactivestory.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thom Kevin Gillespie" <thom@indiana.edu>
> Will the Facade folks be at the Phrontesterian this year? Love to hear 
> those folks discuss what they did and why.

Yes, we'll be there --  it'll be my first time there, made all the more 
possible because I moved to Portland last January.  It'll be Michael's first 
time there too.  Looking forward to it!  (Anyone need a ride from Portland, 
on Friday early evening June 24, and back on Sunday evening June 26?)

I only this week re-joined this list, my previous subscription to it somehow 
languished  (you can find early Facade ramblings of mine in the Jan 2001 
archives of this mailing list), and I hadn't read the latest few months of 
discussion till now, in the archives.  Good to see folks I used to chat with 
(Walt, Benja, Brandon, Morbus, etc) still here.

I did however keep the idrama email address in my address book -- and hence 
rather unceremoniously plopped that NYTimes link email last Tuesday, into 
the middle of what I've now caught up on as a heated discussion.  Sorry for 
the abruptness of that.

As you may know, there are threads of discussion on interactive drama 
happening quite regularly at our group blog, grandtextauto.org.  Not to 
discourage you from posting here, of course -- a blog with comments is not 
as democratic a forum as a mailing list -- but if you're interested in 
expanding your circle of debate, it would be great to hear your voices there 
too, as part of a wider community of discussion (although there are probably 
plenty of lurkers here on this list, making this group bigger than it 
seems).  For example the discussion at the top of GTxA right now is an 
interesting one I think, that could use some new perspective -- "Bernstein's 
Bait Redux", discussing whether traditional forms such as tragedy can even 
work at all in an interactive medium, by their nature.

In case you don't hear much from me here, even though I'm on this list again 
now, I probably will focus my energies on discussions at GTxA, for 
time-bandwidth reasons.

Andrew