Hi Trevor
For all your quibbles, I thought it a raging success - it certainly got me
writing in ways I wouldn't have expected. Did anyone else find that?
Best
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On 2/3/04 12:18 PM, "Trevor Joyce" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> While I certainly wasn't trying for an exact balance, I did try to
> keep the number of female players as high as I easily could. I hadn't
> ever checked the numbers till now, not even mentally, and I'm weirded
> out to find an exact 2 to 1 imbalance to the male side both in terms
> of players and of nodes contributed. despite my efforts.
>
> A comment someone made to me a couple of weeks back also makes me
> highly aware of the universal whiteness of the faces virtually
> gathered. I did make a late try to remedy that, but without effect.
>
> And, even though I was consciously trying to make this a project
> which could accommodate a variety of media and languages, we had only
> one example of a node not in English. Thanks, Arni, for sparing my
> blushes. I was polishing my Irish, but forgot about it, and we didn't
> even get dialect anywhere, or macaronics.
>
> Ah well, live and learn, and I thought it was instructive the way
> players did learn to accommodate and, eventually, respond to,
> graphics. It was a while, though, before we had graphic responding to
> graphic, and some lovely vispo and image/text stuff went unanswered.
>
> Ah well, all good clean family fun. Here's to the next time!
Alison Croggon
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