Aucbarpa.112 NET.csfrp utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!arpavax:mark Wed May 20 18:55:03 1981 forwarded >From Kelley@OFFICE Wed May 20 14:45:10 1981 Date: 20 May 1981 1432-PDT From: Kelley at OFFICE Subject: Game Writing Group meetings To: Game-Writing-Group: cc: kelley Status: R Forgive the short notice but if you would like to attend the Survive game workshop tomorrow night at 7:30 in Los Altos (people are coming from Berkeley) call me at 941-7990 today or sndmsg me Thursday. The Survive game is the working name of the Game Writing Group Group Game. The grand fantasy encompases the interests of the group. It is to be a multi-player animated adventure simulating the effect of things like the Survive game on the world ... modifyable by players not already programmers while they play ... published as a meta game across networks so any player can find the parts ... writers directly supported by players. In the workshop tomorrow night a small number of interested people will make the initial specifications for the first, next and ultimate Survive games. Also here is the flyer for the monthly homebrew-club-type meeting the following week. Authoring Fiction and Games We have an especially interesting line up for this Game Writing Group meeting. The computer faire last month and the Game Fair at the last Graphics Gathering turned up lots of interesting speakers for future meetings. Here is what is planned for this Thursday May 28: GROW Jeff Levinsky will talk to us about a language called "grow" he has developed for writing Adventure Games on micro-computers. Grow is also for authoring creative Computer Assisted Instruction programs and dynamic knowledge networks. Simon and Schuster David Obst from Simon and Schuster's Paramount office in L.A. wants to talk about pairing programmers with fiction authors to come up with adventure games based on popular works like "the God Father" and "Looking for Mr. Goodbar." Science Fiction Science Fiction Writers Malcom Easton and Coleman Brack will tell us about writing for the SciFi / Fantasy market. Malcom has stories published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Journal and in the Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine. VA Eddie Oshins will tell us about work he's planning at the VA Hospital with computer games. Survive Game. The Group Game people will reveal the initial specifications for the Survive Game. And lots more You might tell us a little about what you're doing. Which really adds up to alot! Thursday May 28 at 7:30 pm in the Sheridan Apartments Community Room, 360 Sheridan, Palo Alto. Off El Camino; first street North of Page Mill. Free as usual. Please bring/tell a friend. -- Kirk (415) 941-7990. By the way, interesting discussions could linger into the night if we find another place to meet where we can stay after 10:00. Can you think of any place? ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.