Resources

Books and booklets

• The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond
• The Glass Plate Game Manual
• Teach yourself Internet Game Programming with Java in 21 Days, by Michael Morrison

Web locations

• Glass Plate Game
  1. rules78.html
  2. rulevar2.html
  3. Transcripts of two playings
  4. Example GPG about itself
  5. The Glass Plate Game Instruction Booklet
  6. Logical Levels in the Glass Plate Game
  7. IBIS - compare with GPG
• Glass Bead Game; early Glass Plate Game
  1. Legends of the Glass Plate Game
  2. Rules for making sysmbols
  3. The Glass Bead Game in Germany
  4. http://www.ic.ucsb.edu/~ggotts/hesse/
  5. Hermann Hesse: Internet homepages and discussion groups
  6. Glass "Bead Gane page of The Open Directory Project's DMOZ
  7. Hipbone Games with updated essays on Bead Game
  8. Center for Ludic Synergy
  9. The Digital Bead Game
  10. web links arranged in context of the Glass Bead Game
  11. http://www.peak.org/~caploc
  12. Glass Plate Game course, 1980's
• Design issues
  1. White paper: "Persistant Live Threaded Chat"
  2. Axon (Thought mapper)
  3. The Conversation Map
  4. The Parlimentary Assistant
  5. Idea hunters and matchers
  6. RDF Interest Group, Open Projects Net
  7. Open text authoring on web
  8. As we May Think, by Vannivar Bush, 1945
  9. Formality Considered Harmful
  10. focusideas.html (critique on some aspects of GPG play)
  11. gpgevol.html (difficult questions of purpose
  12. Thoughts about Net GPG in stages
  13. Notes, S.C. in mind
• Readable code
  1. http://www.freecode.com
  2. http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au/ClientServer/index.html
  3. Java Sockets
  4. A large human edited web search engine
  5. Eric R. Raymond's writings
  6. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
  7. An Extreme Programming Course
  8. FAQ, Extreme Programming class

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