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From: svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond)
Subject: A proposed page on IF authorship
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 08:59:36 GMT
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Judging from my Web server's statistics, many (*many*) of you have come
across the rec.arts.int-fiction archives that I mentioned a little while
ago.  First came the framework (similar, it turns out, to Graham's
proposed outline), and now there has been some fleshing-out. 

Before I proceed any further, I was looking for some feedback on what's 
there, and some suggestions for its extension or a course correction.  Is 
this actually useful to anybody?  Interesting?

It is not well-adorned; two bitmaps I created with my company's product,
TrueSpectra Photo>Graphics. Perhaps that minimalism is fitting.  The 
current outline is:

History of IF (a couple of documents and outside links)
Game Design (the most fleshed out, with numerous connections into the
             rec.arts.int-fiction archives, though they are all from 1993)
Specific Game Design (the most interesting, and of course the thinnest 
                      section, containing comments from authors on their
                      games)
Criticism (opinions on criteria and some nasty shots at Planetfall)
Choice of Design systems (nothing here)

I would like some feedback:
- what could be added to encourage you to use this?
- is it time well-spent?
- is it easy to get around in?

http://www.truespectra.com/~svanegmo

/Steve

