Re: Getting Beyond 'Reptilian Emotions'

[Kenneth Lu <kenlu@MIT.EDU>]

 From that reptilian article, talking about the upcoming MMO version 
of The Sims:

>''People will do things for free that they won't do for money,'' 
>said Sean Baity, a writer with the game's developer, Maxis. But, he 
>added, that raises a tricky question: ''When the user starts being 
>really creative, who owns the final product?''

That ties in directly with what Jason has been talking about.. about 
the audience becoming co-authors.. and in a much more integral way 
than with, say, fan fiction.

I don't know.. I'm still kind of uncomfortable with the idea of the 
audience having so much control.  I guess I've been really infleunced 
by Photopia, and the way it uses interaction merely as a tool to 
manipulate the audience. :)  I like having my authorial control! :)

I mean, even with simulations, I tend to think of them in terms of 
how the author sets up the situations..

I dunno. I guess I need to try to think harder about what 
storytelling means in a world where the audience are also authors.

-ToastyKen

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