celia pearce teaches game design and game history, she is a pirate in second life, wrote books on play and digital communities & of course co-founded the indiecade festival which is going on in los angeles right as we are posting this very show.
enjoy a candid conversation with an important thinker in the space of games and virtual worlds:
and some reading material for AFTER you return from indiecade:
- our guest celia pearce [and her book “communities of play“]
![celia pearce [pic courtesy of her fb]](https://draxfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/celia-pearce-pic-courtesy-of-her-fb.jpg)
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virtual adventures: “the loch ness expedition” [produced by iwerks entertainment and evans & sutherland. creative director: celia pearce]
- link to celia’s virtual world survey report = collaboration between georgia tech and northeastern u
- the father of of vr is ivan sutherland and NOT jaron lanier
- game refugees from myst came to sl [and therefore kinda influenced the visual aesthetic?]
![myst [looks like fantasy faire in sl]](https://draxfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/myst-looks-like-fantasy-faire-in-sl.jpg)
- nonny dela pena’s “use of force”
- our show with nonny on immersive journalism:
- so many games = serious games [susana ruiz at the helm] & art games [former ll ceo rod humble’s passion] & lgbt gaming
- celia mentions killer queen arcade
- celia recommends “keep talking and nobody explodes!” [a game for drax????]
- touched on it tangentially: gamer gate and men’s rights movement = bad bad bad…
- are games bad?
- weird sl? vintage drax = adoption in a virtual world [disclaimer: jerky n00b camera!]
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Very interesting interview. I’ve known for a while now that I’m not a mainstream gamer. For example i got Assassins Creed black flag for PS3 and was excited to to some ‘proper gaming’. I soon discovered though that i was perhaps not the target demography when i unknowingly went ‘off piste’. I spent a good half hour sneaking around a fort only to realise after i had killed everyone that it wasn’t yet time to attack the fort so nothing happened. So grumbling i went on with the game and stumbled upon a group of pirates. I dispatched them HA ARGHHH, only to find that I’m not suppose to dispatch them until later. It was at that point i stopped playing because i got bored.
One of my favourite things about second life is that anyone can drop anything into the world. Unless the region is set to no rez.