Firstly, I need to offer a sincere and abject apology for bastardising adapting the phrase All Quiet On the Western Front for the title above, but given the contents of this better-late-then-never-catchup on all things MBDish, it certainly fits.
Second up, this: PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO...*breathes*. If you can't already tell, I'm just a *tinsy* bit excited about recent happenings regarding my + Andy Campbell's transmedia/VR project. Not only has Pluto been accepted for future showcasing at the 2016 Electronic Literature Organisation's Conference Exhibition, The Space - Pluto's commissioning organisation - has been enthusiastically ramping up their support [for which we're immensely grateful: then again when William Gibson retweeted one of our Pluto screenshots, we nearly had a "TOO MUCH ADORKABLE GOODNESS" meltdown (heh), so interpret that as you will]:
What's also floating our collective boat is the rolling breakthroughs we're consistently having on the Pluto 3D devving-front, the 360 VR video front, and the narrative backbone [both the App and the gameworld versions]. Superb.
Thirdly, learning the news that The Dead Tower [another of our + Dreaming Methods' 3D game-ish works] which was recently published in the latest Electronic Literature Collection [Volume 3] has just been featured in that old stalwart of web publications, boing boing [to which my 1990's inner fangrrl gave a bit o' a titter-squeal].
Number four on the update list: I've been invited [and since accepted (yay)] a position to serve:
"…on the Advisory Editorial Board of thresholds, a new digital journal for creative/critical writing currently under development [and] co-founded last year with the intention that it would serve as a space for artists, scholars, and readers to experiment with collaborative and improvisational modes of critical engagement."
Update Five sees another invitation, this time to write an article for the journal "Axon" for their edition called Creative Play/Writing Games [hashtag #HowCouldISayNo?] which is: "…devoted to works which think about and/or perform both as games (structured play) and as literature." Just: YES. PLEASE.
QuickSticks-update-six sees yet another invite [so far 2016 is the year for them] to submit an Electronic Literature work to the New River Journal, the oldest digital lit journal in the U.S. [all done-and-submission-dusted].
7thly [I know, I know, I made that up] is an update that is so sizzlingly explosive I'm unable to reveal it just now, but: [*whispers*] it's big. Really big. So big, in fact, that I can justify misquoting Douglas Adams to ram the point home:
"You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to
space[or rather thisembargoed good-news itemnow announced news]."
Eighth on our Mez-does-her-sporadic-purge-of-current-newsy-type-stuff is a brand spankin' altgame initiative. This is uber-mega-fresh, but when it gets kicking right along you'll be the first to know. Yes, you. At the back there. Hiding behind the virtual reality potplants [you know I can see you, right]? 😉
I do not get enough sleep, I fall asleep only in the morning, I cannot normally get up and get ready for work. And when I felt that no means could help me, I turned to the private doctor and she appointed me antianxiety agent Xanax. I worried if Xanax could cause drowsiness and other related consequences. He assured that if you take Xanax at bedtime and adhere to the biological regime, then the sleep will be complete and there will be no weakness in the morning, only a good mood. It was so, I strongly advise Xanax at https://foamcast.org/xanax-alprazolam/ to those who sleep poorly and can't fall asleep easily.
Ahem. So, that's enough of that, and this, and it's goodnight from me [and it's goodnight from him]. Goodnight!
