Vintage Game Club update
July 14, 2008
Our collaborative discussion of Grim Fandango begins one week from today. I'm thrilled by the terrific response to my invitation, and I'm excited to dive into this genuine classic adventure game with so many of you along for the ride. :-) I can't wait to get started!
I want to thank Dan Bruno and David Carlton once again for their help and inspiration getting this off the ground.
To make it easier for us to talk to each other and organize our discussion, I've created a new forum for the Vintage Game Club. Comments posted here on Brainy Gamer are great, but they're difficult to track over time, and the commenting tool is very inflexible. I hope you'll find this more useful.
The Grim Fandango thread will open one week from today. In the meantime, if you'd like to drop by and say hello, come on over. Anyone can read all the threads, but to participate you will need to register. I've tried to make this as easy as possible - you only need a username and password - but since we're running this as a club, I think it makes sense to register members (and it's easy for me to contact everyone with announcements, polls, etc.). If you'd prefer not to join, that's fine too. You can always post comments here with no sign-up.
Periodically, I will grab posts made on the forum and feature them here to highlight what we're doing. I think lots of people are interested in old games, but they may not have time to join us for a full play-through. I want to share what we're doing and demonstrate how a community of gamers can work together to discuss, analyze, and enjoy classic games.
As I mentioned before, this is all a great big experiment, but given the level of interest I want to do the best I can to make it work. See you all in the Land of the Dead!
Note: We will play the game together from the beginning on the 21st. If you want to get a headstart, feel free, but I'm hoping we can post impressions together from the start of the game.