Roly Keating is the BBC's Controller of BBC 2, and as it turns out, he plays Runescape. What he said in the Independent today makes my heart sing (and I paid a quid to access that page, I hope it's free-to-view in the UK?):
What fascinates me about the best online games is that even more than other higher profile web offerings - and unlike disc-based games - they have some intriguingly fundamental resemblances to broadcasting. They are mass, screen-based entertainment. Their success depends on hundreds of thousands of people watching and engaging simultaneously. They are highly authored and designed, with bags of narrative invention, humour and imagination. Like TV and radio networks, they respond constantly to their audience and to real-world events, evolving and innovating all the time.
Roly Keating: Master Blacksmith?
Ahhh. There we go. Happy now.
(Thanks Kim!)
All Independent Online articles get swept behind a paywall after a few days, it seems.
Posted by: David Hayward | August 01, 2006 at 12:26
Nope, not free to view any more.
The full text went round the Jagex office email a few days ago, though, so I don't need to pay the fee ;)
Posted by: beenabadbunny | August 01, 2006 at 13:54
This is currently making its way around our offices accompanied by many knowing grins and the odd "about time too".
Posted by: Seb Potter | August 01, 2006 at 14:03
Alice, if you could delete the "RuneScape Money Gold" comment please. Real-world trading for RS items/gold is a big no-no. Thanks! :)
Posted by: beenabadbunny | September 08, 2006 at 15:55
Sorry pet, done it now - I hate being -8GMT, it's really tedious.
Posted by: Alice | September 08, 2006 at 17:42