{"70346":{"#nid":"70346","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Video Game Experts Converge on Georgia Tech for Living Game Worlds IV","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDigital gaming luminaries will gather at Georgia Tech on December 1 and 2 for Living Game Worlds IV, a symposium featuring gaming pioneers such as Raph Koster, lead designer of Star Wars Galaxies, and Chris Klaus, founder of Kaneva.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, the conference will focus on \u0027Interplay,\u0027 networked online play as well as multiplayer games and virtual worlds. Panelists include: Richard Bartle, writer of the first multi-user domain; online game developer Brian Green; Chip Morningstar, chief technology officer for WeMade Entertainment USA and platform developer for Yahoo!; Randy Farmer, online gaming innovator and author; and Pavel Curtis, creator of LambdaMoo. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium, which will be accessible via Second Life stream, will explore various aspects of networked play from an historical, cultural, technological and design perspective, as well as looking at current and future trends such as user-created content and use of virtual worlds in the workplace. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThemes to be explored include: historical and international perspectives, productive play (including use of games in the workplace), learning communities\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ninfrastructures, architectures and experience, augmented and alternative reality games, new directions and game creation environments.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELiving Game Worlds is an annual symposium presented by Georgia Tech\u0027s Experimental Game Lab (EGL) in the Digital Media Program of the School of Literature, Communication and Culture and the GVU Center.   Each year, Living Game Worlds brings together experts from academia, industry and the arts to explore topics related to research, design and cultural practices of digital games. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information and to register for the conference, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gameworlds.gatech.edu\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/gameworlds.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/gameworlds.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDigital gaming luminaries will gather at Georgia Tech on December 1 and 2 for Living Game Worlds IV, a symposium featuring gaming pioneers such as Raph Koster, lead designer of Star Wars Galaxies, and Chris Klaus, founder of Kaneva.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Symposium Runs December 1 and 2"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-11-24 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:20","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-11-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-11-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"70347":{"id":"70347","type":"image","title":"Living Game Worlds IV","body":null,"created":"1449177304","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:04","changed":"1475894618","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:38"}},"media_ids":["70347"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gameworlds.gatech.edu\/","title":"Living Game Worlds IV"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1903","name":"4"},{"id":"1446","name":"digital"},{"id":"198","name":"game"},{"id":"1902","name":"iv"},{"id":"1904","name":"koster"},{"id":"1900","name":"living"},{"id":"1538","name":"pearce"},{"id":"1901","name":"worlds"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}