a legendary game designer has visited the sansar basement. richard a. bartle and drax spent an hour [much too short!] debating text vs. graphical interfaces, history vs. future and drax learned that this master of text actually enjoyed the ready player one movie version…

take a listen:

and now explore more:

• richard’s book is still available and it is an important tomb to own in the physical realm….

• …or in the basement where sansardrax is scratching his head!

• the original stream conversation:

• richard’s taxonomy of players [there is one type missing = the draxtorius!] in animated form for generation z:

• when richard was a n00b in sl:

• very interesting = human rights and games?

• what is happening with “our digital selves” you ask? well it is coming may 18th but a week before it drops at paramount pictures for an exclusive…

• what is happening in sansar? well atlas hopping of course:

… and a weird new drax may emerge soon:

• hoverderby is happening too:

• the press is all over hoverderby…

the drax files radio hour [with jo yardley] is a weekly production of basicdrax entertainment.

the show is supported by sinespace, oyo mesh studio, vinyl, masoom, the cube republic, delacruz industries, journey by debi baskerville, vista animations, zero-one heavy industries corporation, aeros avatars, utilizator mode, time portal, slartist, warbug, hextraordinary fine magical goods, bay city you know for kids, maven homes, botanical, strawberry singh, abranimations, kahruvel design, {what next} and landscapes unlimited.

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