Gaming Session: Minecraft, April 26, 2012

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.

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Playversation, Thursday 19 April: Journey

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.

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Gaming session: 12 April–Mass Effect 3 multiplayer

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.

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Symposium, 5 April

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.

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Gaming Session: Minecraft, March 29, 2012

It’s time for our monthly Minecraft session! Thursday March 29, 9:30 EST / 6:30 PST; server is minecraft.bactrian.org. I’m going to unilaterally decide that us using three different chat programs is too many, so I will declare Skype to be our chat software of choice for non-recorded nights and Mumble to be our chat software of choice for recorded nights (so bye-bye Ventrilo). That means this is a Skype night, so add ‘davidbcarlton’ if you’re not already on my contact list, and I’ll throw you into the conversation. (If people would prefer, I could be swayed to using Mumble all the time, I suppose…)
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The School of Athens (VGHVI podcast) for 21 March 2012

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.

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Gaming Session: Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer, March 22, 2012

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.

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