User:Aderack

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Questions and suggestions

Shouldn't we push a summary page of RSD game-maker to wikipedia. It doesn't seem to be any alive, and I think we have enough material now to provide a comprehensive story, no ?

That's Pypein, right? Good idea. Something that may help is an extensive interview with Andy Stone that I have been slow to edit for GamaSutra. Maybe today I'll give it a look-over and send in another draft. Once that's published, I think we'll have enough "notability" for Wikipedia. You know how weird they are about that.

--Aderack 05:46, 15 December 2011 (PST)

Yep, that was me ;) Eager to read that Andy interview. What I do find weird is that I'm pretty sure there once was a RSD page on wikipedia :P

That's entirely possible. Just the other day I found the name of a children's musician who was very popular when I was in elementary school, and tried to look him up on Wikipedia -- only to find that his page had been deleted and locked, because someone didn't find it "notable" enough. This stuff happens all the time. Wikipedia politics mystify me.

Anyway, I figure if we can link the page to several established publications, and anchor it with some key quotes that suggest the software's influence, we may just be able to avoid the cut.

--Aderack 12:40, 15 December 2011 (PST)

Likely, yes. One approach we could follow is to create a page for RSD, provided that Andrew Stone gave you enough information about the "company" status, with a section about the Game-Maker and xferplay itself, [[1]] already mentions its existence. And of course a section of in-house game and how games were recruited for the 3.0 CDROM.

That may be a way to do it. I'll have to mull it over. It's kind of hard to separate the company from the product, as RSD was formed to market Game-Maker and I don't think they had any other products before they disbanded. It will definitely make sense to list the first-party games, and maybe a few examples that found a certain following, like the Blinky games, or were designed by people of later note such as cly5m. Whatever we can do to underline some broader relevance, however tenuous!

--Aderack 13:04, 22 December 2011 (PST)