[arg_discuss] ARG SIG News Dec 2006: whitepaper, talks, call for volunteers

[Christy Dena]

A wiki sounds like a fine idea Adam. It would be good to have a page too of
ARG Researchers and ARG Educators (that everyone can fill in themselves!).

Is the wiki up?

Regards,
Christy


On 12/2/06, Adam Martin <adam.m.s.martin at googlemail.com> wrote:

>

> ARG SIG News - December 2006

>

> Whitepaper

> ----------------

> The 2006 whitepaper is now online on the http://igda.org/arg site.

>

> We're looking for volunteers to start transferring this to the wiki -

> or, at the very least, to extract the parts that change most rapidly

> (summaries of recent ARGs, for instance) and update them on the main

> igda.org website. Please email arg_sig @ igda.org if you would like to

> take on either of these jobs.

>

> Talks

> ----------------

> For anyone who missed it, Elan Lee (of 4orty2wo) gave a talk last

> month at the Montreal Games Summit. You can see a video of the

> complete talk here:

>

> http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/elan%20lee/video/xmb28_elan-lee

>

> We're also looking for someone to volunteer to gather up the other

> ARG-related talks, and where necessary get them onto the FTP space

> kindly setup by the folks at GMD Studios (or elsewhere as

> appropriate/required), and write short descriptions of each to go on

> the igda.org website. Again, email arg_sig @ igda.org if you would

> like to take this on.

>

> Awards

> ----------------

> Finally ... working on the whitepaper, we realised there were a lot of

> awards and nominations for ARGs but there appears to be no central

> list of them, and many of them it is hard to find anything more than

> passing or clearly incorrect references as to: status (nominated, or

> won?), actual award (title? awarding organization? year?), background

> info (receiving org? explanation for award? reason for winning?), etc.

>

> Again, if anyone would like to put this together, we already have a

> provisional list of around 15 definite and possible awards which I can

> forward to you. From there it's just a case of checking them out,

> finding weblinks where possible, and adding any other awards you can

> find. Email to the usual address, please...

>

> PS: for all the PM's out there who've won awards for their games, it

> would help enormously if you could send us a definitive list of award

> info (year/date of awards ceremony, official title, project, winning

> status, any relevant links, etc). Anything at all would be better than

> nothing, but the more you send, the more likely we'll get it right

> (and that it will get included!)

>

> Adam

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