[arg_discuss] ARG SIG Chat Feb. 3 - Goals and Sharing Info/Techniques/Ideas

[Karen Westerman]

Hello, a quick question:
by post-mortem you refer to the results of the promo, like say what is
published in Chris´s website
http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com/index.php/2006/03/04/top-args-with-stats/
???
what would help me (i don´t know if also other first time developers)
would see the actual game design , features, pacing, etc....

is that something i can look into in a white paper published somewhere...

for instance the document for Troy, where could i get hold of it?

thanks in advance?

On 2/9/07, Adam Martin <adam.m.s.martin at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 09/02/07, despain at quantumcontent.com <despain at quantumcontent.com> wrote:

> > > If you look at the post-mortems regularly published on

> > > gamasutra.com/Game Developer Magazine (and even collated into books!),

> >

> > The thing is, we're trying to conduct this conversation in the same medium

> > where we play our games - the wide open internet. Books are outside that

> > context and even most gamasutra articles require registration to read.

> > Sure, it's free registration, so you wouldn't think it was much of a

> > barrier, but it works to set that material apart from the rest of the

> > Internet.

>

> FYI very little requires registration these days. IIRC no new articles

> have used reg for a long time (none of those I've read in the last 12

> months, for instance). The change was so noticeable a year or two ago

> that I took it to be a deliberate change of policy.

>

> > I think we need some similar boundaries for a sense of privacy before

> > we'll open up and start building community.

> >

> > I couldn't tell from your post if you were supporting this or not.

>

> I don't see the two as mutually incompatible. The privacy that a free,

> open group like the SIG can provide will never be enough for some

> people (for instance, MindCandy would never be able to go on there and

> start talking about where they'd put the cube; or Tony's comment in

> the chat). In parallel with whatever restricted comms are taking place

> we need to increase the openness and sharing of information. For

> instance, now the cube has been found, are MindCandy going to do a

> public post mortem or similar? The trend so far has been for the

> commercial companies not to do this :(. That is a trend I'd like to

> change.

>

> Look at Troy for an example of what I'd like to see more of, both

> because such post-mortems are very interesting and because they are

> very effective at teaching new PM's techniques and approaches in ARG

> design and development.

>

> Adam

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