ARTG 80H Lecture 17: Class 17
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Review: q&a to help you prepare for final. Opening clip: (australia) archive of online multiplayer game worlds: compilation of historical videogame moments. Virtual worlds are history: historical events happen in the game, poorly documented, virtual worlds go away relatively quickly. Virtual worlds: that is a computerized or digitized simulation of something; spec (esp. in earlier use) simulated in virtual reality. Also: established or conducted using computer technology rather than more traditional means. Recap: mud and multiplayer: for those who don"t know, mud stands for multi-user dungeon. It"s the world"s first adventure game which allows more than one person to wander around in its environment at the same time. ~roy bartle: second life, second life launched 2003, world of warcraft (2004-) They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the. ~neal stephenson, snow crash (1992), p. 35, from the silicon.