Daily Archives: December 19, 2004

Interactive Drama

Seeking legitimacy?
Been there, doing that!

by Brian David Phillips • December 19, 2004

Terra Nova takes a gander at Seeking legitimacy among game scholars and how the scholars hope to affect future games in some way but in reality don’t affect much at all. The problem is that we tend to be marginalized from that which we study, intended to comment upon but not participate in. More scholars…

Story Construction

by Brian David Phillips • December 19, 2004

Torill Elvira Mortensen writes on Story Construction . . . worth seeing: One point sounds familiar: how the creaters of games, the designers, are creators not of stories, but of narrative potential. I know I worded this argument years ago, but was that in one of the many sessions of discussion – argument – supervision…

my secret blog . . .
And then what?

by Brian David Phillips • December 19, 2004

Jill Walker writes about her recent desire for a secret blog . . . an anonymous place where she can write about what her real experiences are and her true feelings without the reserve that a public blog requires where no matter how cool or open or liberal or candid one may appear, there is…

Cell Phones That Do It . . .
sex via vibrating cellphones

by Brian David Phillips • December 19, 2004

Wired’s Regina Lynn reports on Wired News: Cell Phones That Do It . . . cellphones that provide sexual experience via doohickies whatzitz and various bits that go buzz in all the right places. There seems to be a boom in the cellphone buzz business aimed at folks who want to dial an orgasm. It’s…

Jenna Jameson Cancer News

by Brian David Phillips • December 19, 2004

Jenna Jameson just reported in her diary that she is recovering from surgery for malignant melanoma (a mole became cancerous . . . her mother died early of skin cancer of the same type). Her most recent tests have come up clear so evidently the surgery did the trick.