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In honour of the BAFTA award nomination for the BBC's new Internet
edition of the classic Infocom computer game, "The Hitchhiker's Guide
To The Galaxy", we present two titans of the text adventure:

* STEVE MERETZKY AND MICHAEL BYWATER, IN CONVERSATION *
* (on interactive fiction, Douglas Adams and other lost worlds) *

As well as working with Douglas Adams on the "Hitchhiker's" game in
1985, STEVE MERETZKY is responsible for such other classics of the
genre as "Planetfall", "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" and "Zork Zero".
In 1999 he was named one of the industry's 25 "Game Gods" by PC Gamer
magazine. He currently holds the position of Principal Game Designer
for WorldWinner, Inc.

Veteran writer and broadcaster MICHAEL BYWATER has been involved with
interactive storytelling since the eighties, both with Douglas Adams
on Infocom's "Bureaucracy" and the legendary British games company
Magnetic Scrolls. He worked with Adams again in the mid-nineties on
The Digital Village's "Starship Titanic". His third book, "Lost
Worlds: What Have We Lost & Where Did It Go?" (a collection of his
columns for The Independent On Sunday) is out now.

Date: Thursday 3rd March, 8:00pm
Price: 4 pounds on the door - all proceeds go to Save The Rhino and
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
Venue: The Brockway Room, Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Map:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=530650&Y=181775&A=Y&Z=1
Any questions: yoz@yoz.com
 
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Yoz Grahame wrote:

> In honour of the BAFTA award nomination for the BBC's new Internet
> edition of the classic Infocom computer game, "The Hitchhiker's Guide
> To The Galaxy", we present two titans of the text adventure:
>
> * STEVE MERETZKY AND MICHAEL BYWATER, IN CONVERSATION *
> * (on interactive fiction, Douglas Adams and other lost worlds) *
[...]
> Date: Thursday 3rd March, 8:00pm
> Price: 4 pounds on the door - all proceeds go to Save The Rhino and
> The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
> Venue: The Brockway Room, Conway Hall
> 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

Maybe someone who's lucky enough to be in attendance will turn scripting
on for us?
 
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This is the sort of thing that makes me sad to live in Portugal (Europe),
there's nothing like this around here, and the price to pay to travel there
and attend... makes it very very expensive.

Please let us know what happened there, and if possible some footage 😉

Kind Regards,
RootShell