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>From Kelley@OFFICE  Wed May 20 14:45:10 1981
Date: 20 May 1981 1432-PDT
From: Kelley at OFFICE  
Subject: Game Writing Group meetings
To:   Game-Writing-Group:
cc:   kelley
Status: R

Forgive the short notice but if you would like to attend the Survive game 
workshop tomorrow night at 7:30 in Los Altos (people are coming from Berkeley) 
call me at 941-7990 today or sndmsg me Thursday.

The Survive game is the working name of the Game Writing Group Group Game.  The
grand fantasy encompases the interests of the group.  It is to be a 
multi-player animated adventure simulating the effect of things like the 
Survive game on the world ... modifyable by players not already programmers 
while they play ... published as a meta game across networks so any player can 
find the parts ... writers directly supported by players.

In the workshop tomorrow night a small number of interested people will make 
the initial specifications for the first, next and ultimate Survive games.

Also here is the flyer for the monthly homebrew-club-type meeting the following
week.

            Authoring Fiction and Games

We have an especially interesting line up for this Game Writing Group meeting. 
The computer faire last month and the Game Fair at the last Graphics Gathering 
turned up lots of interesting speakers for future meetings.

Here is what is planned for this Thursday May 28:

GROW

   Jeff Levinsky will talk to us about a language called "grow" he has 
   developed for writing Adventure Games on micro-computers.  Grow is also for 
   authoring creative Computer Assisted Instruction programs and dynamic 
   knowledge networks. 

Simon and Schuster

   David Obst from Simon and Schuster's Paramount office in L.A. wants to talk 
   about pairing programmers with fiction authors to come up with adventure 
   games based on popular works like "the God Father" and "Looking for Mr. 
   Goodbar."

Science Fiction

   Science Fiction Writers Malcom Easton and Coleman Brack will tell us about 
   writing for the SciFi / Fantasy market.  Malcom has stories published in 
   Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Journal and in the Fantasy and Science 
   Fiction magazine.

VA

   Eddie Oshins will tell us about work he's planning at the VA Hospital with 
   computer games.

Survive Game.

   The Group Game people will reveal the initial specifications for the Survive
   Game.

And lots more

   You might tell us a little about what you're doing.

Which really adds up to alot!  

Thursday May 28 at 7:30 pm in the Sheridan Apartments Community Room, 360 
Sheridan, Palo Alto.  Off El Camino; first street North of Page Mill.   Free as
usual.  Please bring/tell a friend. -- Kirk (415) 941-7990.

By the way, interesting discussions could linger into the night if we find 
another place to meet where we can stay after 10:00.  Can you think of any 
place?

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