sNeaksieGarrett on 11/4/2011 at 22:25
I got the opportunity to check out UT Austin's Video Game Archive this morning. Just to show I'm not making that up, see (
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/projects/videogamearchive/index.php) here. The archive is just a collection of Texas-based video game companies' old game project documents.
There's even some media on the website I linked to, I saw some of that while I was there. [Like the system shock poster.]
Of course the most interesting to me personally was the box full of Warren Spector's papers. (Stuff from Ion Storm - older docs, not current stuff.)
There was Thief documents, deus ex docs, etc. it was great. There were printouts of emails between Warren Spector and others about different topics. I saw concept art from games, different documents (e.g. A thief deadly shadows powerpoint presentation print-out discussing what the game is in some detail from the designers), and they even have a collection of game boxes from the past. (Morrowind, deus ex, half life, ultima, to name a few. People can donate to their collection too.) Would have been great to take some of these docs home and study them in more detail, but I know I can't. I could however always go back there and spend some more time looking through the stuff they have.
Anyway, just thought people might be interested. This is like a gaming nerd's dream getting to check out all the behind the scenes stuff from different projects.
gunsmoke on 12/4/2011 at 02:31
Consider yourself lucky. Oh, and if I were you, I'd go back as often as I could, if for no other reason than to absorb some overlooked history.
Ulukai on 6/2/2013 at 17:41
Hands up if you wandered in 2 years after the OP thinking UT = Unreal Tournament, not University of Teaxs :(
Jason Moyer on 6/2/2013 at 18:09
Might want to change the subject to make it more obvious.
demagogue on 7/2/2013 at 04:25
This is kind of cool for me in the opposite direction, since I was attending UTexas in this period and taking some computer science courses. (My major was philosophy, but it was heavy on the logic, AI, & cognitive science side, and a lot of the action was in the CS dept). So I felt a little bit part of that world. Now it's cool to read about stuff that was going on in Austin in that period, and the link to UT.
june gloom on 28/4/2013 at 09:14
that baking pan bit doesn't make you clever jsyk
