Graeme Davis, MMORPG talk

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Graeme Davis will be talking about life in VR to our class today from Denver, Colorado.

Graeme dropped out of an archeology Ph. D. (Bronze Age burials of northern England) in 1986 to join Games Workshop as a tabletop RPG designer, and has been in the games industry ever since.

Among other things,he worked from 1996-2002 at VR1, a developer of MMO games for clients like AOL, Microsoft, and So-Net Japan. He has worked on 20-odd published electronic games, for platforms ranging from PC to consoles to handhelds to cell phones, as well as a lot of tabletop role playing material, including several historical sourcebooks.

He has also created interactive fiction for entertainment and education, "edutainment" CD-ROMs, and a wide range of other media. He contributed a chapter to the forthcoming book by the Game Developers' Association Writers' Special Interest Group, "Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing", due to be published by A K Peters later this year.

He is also a member of Virtual Worlds Connect, The community for professionals involved in the metaverse and virtual worlds industry.

He prepared a list of MMORPG resources for the class that you can download here