Worlds of Fantasy Through the Looking Glass on BBC Four: currently available on iPlayer
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Video, Lord of the Rings Online
Worlds of fantasy is a series that has run on BBC Four for several weeks. This week's show deals with books, films and "video games" including various clips from MMOGs. It is currently available to UK residents on iPlayer. A quick search on youtube shows previous episodes have made it onto the site, but this programme is not yet there.The show contains material from Terry Prachett, Michael Moorcock, Guillermo del Toro, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and others as well as material about Tolkein amongst many others. It looks at the development of fantasy books into RPGs (with some painful 70's hairdos as college students are playing table-top AD&D). Around 37 minutes in, it jumps to World of Warcraft, then LoRTO at about 42 minutes in. Being BBC Four there is a lot talk about the cultural significance, the psychology of gaming and the like, but if you enjoy reading fantasy books and watching fantasy films as well as playing your MMOGs you will probably enjoy this hour of television when you get the chance to see it.
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Richard Bartle said on 7:27AM 3-15-2008
I can't say for sure, but I think one of those "college students" playing D&D was Steve Jackson, one of the founders of Games Workshop and later co-author of the fighting Fantasy books.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/kids/authors/jackson/
Richard
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