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From: svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond)
Subject: Re: Proposal for a WWW page on authorship
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 05:12:45 GMT
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Graham Nelson <nelson@vax.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
>At present, I personally haven't the means to provide Web pages, so this
>post is to try and attract interest from others in creating one.  Any
>volunteers?  Would anybody like to comment?

This has been something that I have wanted to do for a while; I'd noticed 
how authors tended to divide themselves into distinct camps, with few 
places where they met.  In particular, my own beginning on the subject 
(http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~svanegmo/if-authors.html) refers 
only to the nuts and bolts of Inform (and 5.5 at that), and gives only a 
vague wave of the hand in the direction of design issues.

>  * short articles which have been posted to rec.arts.int-fiction and
>    subsequently put onto one of the IF web pages (r.a.i-f is one of the
>    better-archived newsgroups: it would be painful to wade through it all,
>    but there's gold in there somewhere);

This is another thing which I've considered.  I was going to write (in my 
copious spare time, of course) a program to extract the largish posts 
from rec.arts.int-fiction, reasoning that these would be embedded in 
broader and more interesting threads on the subject, which I could take 
out in their entirety and make available.

>  1. Comprehensive design guides
>  2. General articles on aspects of game design
>  3. Reports on the writing of particular games
>  4. Critical game reviews
>  5. Choice of and links to design systems
>  6. Historical documents

>Well -- any takers?  Would anyone besides myself be enthused?  Would anyone
>like to post URLs of interesting items that could be included?

I find this idea pretty exciting, and it's an excellent way to bring 
together much of the knowledge which we have here in a reasonably 
interesting and (what a change for the Web) insightful package.

I think I'll put together something tonight and see what sorts of things 
I can collect and present, perhaps until I get tired.
