Lileks on Toontown
The invaluable James Lileks weighs in on Toontown.
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In 1985 we began work on what would become one of the world's first
multi-person graphical virtual worlds, and arguably the first of what are
now awkwardly called "Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games"
(MMORPGs). Thus began a series of adventures in technology, business, and
the online world which continue to this day. This site is where we tell
our story: the things we learned, the mistakes we made, the people we met,
a tale of human brilliance and folly and things you would never have
imagined.
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November 12, 2008
November 01, 2008
Blog recovered, mostly
With the help of various undiscarded bric-a-brac laying about the house and a big boost from the Internet Archive (yay Brewster!), I have recovered nearly all of the content of Habitat Chronicles and restored the blog to something resembling its former glory. I was able to restore 100% of the posts and about 95% of the comments.
All the content should be here, though we still need to put in a bunch of redirects so that links to the old pages will lead to the proper new ones (in particular, a version change in MovableType causes the URLs for archived posts to now have a different format; the new format is arguably better but will break old links).
We're also planning on moving from our current interim host (Yahoo!) to a more reliable and permanent hosting service. If any of you have opinions about what web hosting companies you like, please let us know, either by leaving a comment or emailing me.
And if anybody notices any links that are broken because they point to the old site, we'd appreciate hearing about that too. (I already know that the HabitatRedux.ppt document is not there, because Yahoo!'s file uploader won't allow me to upload a file that large.)
October 20, 2008
Chip and Randy @ Living Game Worlds IV 12/1-12/2
Registration is now open for
Living Game Worlds IV - Interplay: Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
December 1-2, 2008
Georgia Tech
Technology Square Research Building
85 5th Street, Atlanta, GA
Step in to the vanguard of digital gaming at Georgia Tech’s 4th annual Living Game Worlds symposium to be held December 1-2, 2008. Raph Koster and Chris Klaus headline this year’s conference which will showcase “InterPlay,” networked online play and the rapidly-growing domains of multiplayer games and virtual worlds. The symposium will also feature a pioneers panel including luminaries Richard Bartle, Brian Green, Chip Morningstar, Randy Farmer and Pavel Curtis. Also, don't miss the chance to see the latest demos from Georgia Tech's Digital Media Program, EGL, and GVU. Early registration ends October 31. Register now at http://gameworlds.gatech.edu
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