It’s Minecraft time! You know the drill: Thursday 6:30 PDT / 9:30 EDT, server is minecraft.bactrian.org. We’re doing our Minecraft conversation over Skype these days, so add davidbcarlton if you’re not already on my Skype contact list.
David and I are really looking forward to getting a chance finally to talk about this remarkable gamespace. We’ll be going spoiler-free as much as possible, and would very much invite participation by those who haven’t played Journey. We encourage participants to play as they converse, but it’s by no means a requirement.
9:30pm on the usual Mumble server; comment with contact info if you lack the necessary login facts.
Was it my lack of galactic readiness that killed Liara? If so, I shall fight all night, and rage against BioWare, and consider investing the many hours it would take to save her. Discussion will be on XBL unless players on other platforms post here to comment.
9:30 Eastern.
It’s the first week of the month, which means that it’s time for another VGHVI Symposium! To my mind, we acquitted ourselves well when trying to define “play,” so it’s time to move on and try to define “gamespace.” It’s worth noting that Mattie and Steve G and I had a friendly Twitter dust-up about authorship and games, in which Mattie used the phrase “authored space.” That’s going to be my way in, with the questions still looming about Mass Effect 3 and such things as authored spaces and player performances.
We’ll be on Mattie’s Mumble server. Comment here with contact info for a missive from me with details, or find me on Google Plus, which should be easy enough.
Irrevocability was the word, and the idea, I wanted to explore in relation to the hothothot issue of Mass Effect culture. So I made everybody talk about that–never fear, though, we also cover the possibly illusive multiculturalism of the series.
Zero spoilers for Mass Effect 3!
On this episode: Roger Travis, David Carlton, Dan Cox, John Flanagan, Patrick Holleman, Randy Ma, and Eric Swain.
We’re working on improving our galactic readiness this week by playing some more Mass Effect 3 multiplayer. Conversation over Skype, at least assuming that some people will be playing on PC; if everybody will be on 360, then I guess we can use XBL chat instead?
Thursday 3/22 at 9:30 EDT / 6:30 PDT. If you’re playing on XBL, please add me (malvasia bianca) to your friends list if you’re not on it already. And if you’re playing on a different platform, please add davidbcarlton to your Skype contact list and include the multiplayer contact info for your preferred platform in the comment thread.
