Secrets Of Dungeons And Dreamers

Thanks to Wired News for their story discussing the forthcoming book, Dungeons And Dreamers, which is subtitled 'The Rise of Computer Game Culture From Geek to Chic', and "..documents the manically creative lives of gamers by tracing the career of eccentric 'Lord British,' as [Richard] Garriott is known to millions of fans, and panning out to explore the social anthropology of computer game culture." The article points to the book's official website, where you can also find a copy of the book's first chapter, and, as for the wider implications of success stories like Ultima creator Garriott's, co-author John Borland says: "..history matters, and we want people to realize that Quake isn't an isolated phenomenon. Games back in the 1870s had similar themes, so did mid-century toy soldiers and H.G. Wells novels."

Comments

This is great news!

[Daetrin]

I've always known that i wasn't going to amount to much because i wasn't taking college level courses in elementary school or planing the conquest of the known world at age eight or whatever it is that those destined for greater things are doing nowdays.

But after reading this article, i have new hope! I just need to be weird and whacky! I can do that! I can do weird and whacky! I always have been somewhat, but now i know that i just need to try harder! To be weirder and whackier than i ever have been before!

Oh, and design world famous video games. Um. Well, i'll worry about that bridge when i come to it, i'll just go get started on the weird and whacky bit now.