Captured by Iroko in ATS's #atriarch (irc.stratics.com) channel on March 12, 2002 (edited by Herok)

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{Synon|FoA} Now presenting... Serafina!
Synon|FoA turns on the applause sign
{Synon|FoA} wooooooooooooooo!
Hunter hits the "Woo Atriarch" sign
Synon|FoA hands Serafina the microphone
{Synon|FoA} Take it away!
{Serafina} hello
Serafina bows and waves to the crowd.
Synon|FoA cheers
Synon|FoA throws frisbees
{Neo_Orion} The channel stats have been updated http://www.projectjen.net/stats
{Serafina} nifty
{Serafina} Apparently, I'm a night crawler
Serafina smiles.
{Serafina} I'm a top 10 greeter!
{Serafina} Way cool!
{Serafina} Hi :-)
{Serafina} Hello :-)
{Serafina} Welcome!
{Neo_Orion} We are number 4 on the mirc stats top 100 list lets get up there lick the banner people (or you could click it instead if you must)
{Serafina} I don't understand... what is this and how does it work?
{Synon|FoA} He made a program to search through a log and generate stats for it
{Serafina} Ya, but why is Atriarch listed?
{Serafina} Aren't there like a billion other channels that could have been listed?
{Synon|FoA} Only official channels are listed
{Synon|FoA} Neo_Orion gets to pick which ones
{Serafina} Atriarch is not an official channel.
{Synon|FoA} er... the ones Neo_Orion picks ;)
{Serafina} hehe
{Serafina} Stratics won't consider #atriarch an official channel because we don't let that damn bot in here.
{Serafina} per my request of course
{Serafina} It banned me one too many times.
{Torpor} Who me?
{Hunter} no
{Hunter} the bot.
{Hunter} evil evil nazi bot
{Torpor} oh
{Synon|FoA} You need that bot to make it official? bleh
{Hunter} no
{Hunter} bot + 2 ircops
{Hunter} actually
{Hunter} more like 3 bots 2 ircops
{Synon|FoA} haha
{Serafina} They told me all I need is the bot.
{Hunter} newp
{Synon|FoA} I hate that bot with a passion
{Hunter} soon as the bot comes we get a chan coordinator and a CS ircop
{Serafina} We used to be official, until I made them get rid of the bot.
{Hunter} and watch bot for proxy scans
{Serafina} What's a proxy scan?
{Synon|FoA} stratics is... paraniod?

Weekly Show
{Serafina} If I have weekly chats in here, will stratics promote it?
{Hunter} if you want us to
{Hunter} they probably will
{Synon|FoA} proxy is like... your authorization
{Hunter} poq asked me earlier
{Serafina} probably?
{Serafina} or yes?
Synon|FoA nudges Hunter yesyes
{Hunter} do you want it or not?
{Serafina} Well, that's why I'm asking, of course I do.
{Serafina} but I want to find out first the kind of support I'll get so I know whether to keep the weekly chats here or somewhere else
{Hunter} well
{Serafina} It would be totally informal.
{Hunter} it would be easiest to use the hoc room
{Hunter} since we can set that up differently
{Serafina} It would just be a scheduled time that me or someone else from the Atriarch team is guaranteed to be here to chat about the game.
{Hunter} oh
{Serafina} or general game concepts or answer questions
{Hunter} in that case
{Hunter} here is fine
{Serafina} Yes, it would promote the channel, promote Atriarch, possibly bring new people to the community.
{Hunter} not a problem
{Serafina} But before I commit to it, I want to find out if global announcements would be made each week beforehand, etc.
{Hunter} oh, yeah
{Hunter} thats easy
{Serafina} Also, would there be a news post on Stratics main site, etc?
{Hunter} ask DS about that
{Hunter} Ill post in on ours for sure
{Serafina} Yes, but it people already read ATS, the likelihood is that they have already stopped by here. This is partly to drag in new people.
{Hunter} Ill talk to DS about getting it on the main site
{Hunter} I dont know who to contact about that honestly

Epiphany: Worldplay
{Korak} What have you accomplished today Serafina?
{Serafina} heya Korak
{Serafina} I just got out of a publisher meeting.
{Korak} How did it go?
{Serafina} They asked me questions and I had an epiphany.
{Serafina} Why do we call it gameplay?
{Korak} Do you know/think they were interested?
{Serafina} I think we should start calling it worldplay.
{Korak} Nah.
{Korak} Well, please elaborate serafina.
{Serafina} Anyway, I digress. It went fine. It was an introduction meeting to get to know each other.
{Korak} Let Atriarch shine 8)
{Serafina} When you think about roleplaying a character, questing, fighting, building a home, a city, etc... is it gameplay? To me, not really, it is playing in a world, not sandbox.
{Serafina} They didn't laugh me off the phone, so that is a good sign :-)
{Korak} Nah, fighting is gameplay
{Serafina} Not if it is tied into a world.
{Korak} Roleplaying? I'd say yeah, that would be "world"play.
{Serafina} Virtua Fighter is a game.
{Serafina} That is a fighting game.
{Korak} So is Atriarch
{Sarvas} i like to play games.
{Korak} Most people don't think of Virtura Fighter as an RPG
{Korak} but, it is.
{Korak} if, and only if, you play your role.
{Serafina} No, you don't play *your
role. You play someone else's.
{Korak} I use to take it over board though, in quake, magestorm, hehe. Roleplaying various characters. But I'm in the extreme minority of actors/roleplayers
{Serafina} So, I guess it would be more like an adventure game.
{Korak} nope.
{Korak} I created my role, and played it as best I could.
{Korak} the vile and sneaky mystic
{Sarvas} yes, nothing like pretending to be a nearly nude female kicking some big guy in the head
{IdiotBoy} heh
{Serafina} lol
{Korak} hehe 8)
{Serafina} so then none of you like my worldplay idea?
{IdiotBoy} If I could be a nearly nude female irl, I'd never leave the house.
{Korak} So, what I would say anything that is tied to a plot line, a serious story, is world play.
{Korak} Something like my Arenas? Not really
{Korak} Although I hope to have politicks involved in them
{Serafina} IdiotBoy... lol
{Korak} but that's only for the Gladiators and various competing organizations.
{IdiotBoy} I like the concept of 'worldplay'.. bu when you start creating new terms.. you have to get somuch mindshare.. do you want to spend your time doing that?
{Serafina} ooh... what a good idea... we can call the political game in Atriarch: worldplay... the WorldPlay system
{Serafina} interesting
{Serafina} IdiotBoy... I say worldplay, because when I say gameplay the first thing that comes to people's mind is combat. An online game is soooo much more than that. When I say worldplay, people actually think differently. The stigma of gameplaying is removed a bit.
{Korak} I definitely think you need to sorta copyright 'lego'system serafina
{Korak} and "organic living world" or "pow"(persistant online world)
{Serafina} Korak... hehe... ya, Lego is kinda taken
{Korak} use those keyterms A LOT
Korak nods
{Korak} But, doesn't mean you can't use it a lot
{Serafina} so is erector set
{IdiotBoy} Yeah, I guess we kind have gotten tuned to the concept of gameplay being combat.. not many tetris-like games succeed anymore.. at least on the PC platofrm.
{Korak} 8)
{IdiotBoy} Oh, btw, Serafina..
{Korak} Uh, I think I copyrighted that *BOING*
{Serafina} IdiotBoy... are you kidding? Have you played Bejeweled?
{Korak} IdiotBoy- you've got to be kidding
{Korak} lol Serafina
{IdiotBoy} How do i do that?

Minigames r good
{Korak} Mini-games, like tetris, when 'spiced' up, are just as fun as the first version.
{Korak} Serafina, been working on a new promo/slogan
{Serafina} I'm with Korak on this one.
{Serafina} Those mini-games are always fun.
{Serafina} Korak... uh oh... hit me with it
{Korak} "Come for the fun and relaxing minigames. Stay for the environment."
{IdiotBoy} Do people pay to play Bejeweled like games on their PCs?
{IdiotBoy} "More than out of the $10 bargain bin.
{Korak} But what if they could play it with twenty other people?
{Korak} And not ONLY that game
{Serafina} IdiotBoy... I bought a license for it
{IdiotBoy} hehe
{IdiotBoy} Ok..
{Korak} They could play alittle giant chess, then jump into a quake/tribes/cs-type fps hack nslasher. then jump to capture the flag. plant the 'spawn' or egg. clyft unarra races.
{Korak} on and on and on
{IdiotBoy} Then how does gameplay tie to 'combat'.. is that just in the PSW area that you see that?

FreeBSD Support?
{IdiotBoy} Supposedly Linux version will be released.. is that going to be using SDL.. will i be able to play on FreeBSD?
{Serafina} IdiotBoy... not my department. You'll have to ask Arc.

Atriarch Description Archive?
{Serafina} Does anyone here happen to remember some description I gave about how I think Atriarch will be?
{Serafina} I had such a great answer once online or in an interview. For god sakes, I can't remember what it was. I was in a rare moment when words came to my mouth without stuttering.

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