Re: Episode 8: The Terminator Returns
By: Digital Man to TechDorks on Tue Oct 20 2015 04:08 am
DM> Door games and sound bytes reign high, oh my!
DM> http://mp3.techdorks.net/episodes/techdorks-2015-10-20-ep8.mp3
Wow, this was cool. Thanks so much for discussing my Shooter Jennings
interview, and for talking about Break Into Chat.
I created the wiki as a way to preserve all of Wikipedia's door game articles,
since it seemed likely many would eventually be deleted.
Over time, the scope broadened. I began adding articles for games WP never had.
I began doing my own research and interviews.
To share those interviews, I created a BiC blog as well. I've interviewed a
number of door game authors like Amit Patel, who wrote Solar Realms Elite. He
later went on to become one of the first Google employees, and is credited with
helping popularize the motto "Don't be evil." I felt that it was important to
talk to primary sources like this so that there could be material for research,
or citations on the wiki.
Deuce said the wiki was "biased," and he's right. I have focused more of my
energy on the games I played personally as a teen. But I have also tried to
focus on games that hadn't gotten much attention. LoRD and TradeWars are all
well-documented and noted. But what about Assassin? Space Dynasty? etc, etc.
In the last year or so, I've spent a lot of time writing my own Synchronet
doors and experiments in javascript. Ironically this has taken away time I
would otherwise have spent doing research/writing on the wiki or the blog.
So, yeah, I definitely need to add entries for all of Sync's JS games. If
anyone wants to help, get in touch. I would welcome it. Over the last 2-3
years, I've had three people request accounts on the wiki, and none of them
have ever actually contributed anything.
--Josh
BTW - I've been working with an artist in Mistrigis to make a new parallax
scrolling ANSI demo, using Sync's Frame.js. Should be coming out next month.
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