Carpenter Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Anyone knows where is Carol Shaw in the present days? What is she doing for living? I tryed google but it showed up no news! :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakpack Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 No pictures allowed in signatures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpenter Posted October 14, 2008 Author Share Posted October 14, 2008 No pictures allowed in signatures Removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakpack Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 No pictures allowed in signatures Removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpenter Posted October 14, 2008 Author Share Posted October 14, 2008 Carol, are you there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homerwannabee Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Here is a little bit of info on her. According to this she is married to a University of Georgia professor. http://www.nndb.com/people/297/000136886/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 More info. None recent though. http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/v...eloperId,52278/ http://www.davidlubar.com/mygames.html Carol Shaw I met her when I was working for Activision. Her algorithm for creating the landscape in River Raid is one of the most elegant pieces of programming I ever saw. Side note -- her brother Steve did the Apple version of Deluxe Paint for Electronic Arts. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammR25 Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 I don't think she does games anymore. Programmer Carol Shaw - wife of Xerox's Merkle - has also designed a nanotechnology modelling program. http://www.sciencebase.com/elemnano.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuzzed Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Interesting.... so, has no one heard or seen her since the Big video game crash of the early 80s? She keep a low profile these days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Wonder if she has anything to do with www.carol.com ? 'Tis ashame she won't take more (any?) bows for River Raid. She's gotta know it's one of the best games ever made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Interesting.... so, has no one heard or seen her since the Big video game crash of the early 80s? She keep a low profile these days? She was on Stella at 20 volume two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Thag Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Hopefully she's upgraded those glasses! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Interesting.... so, has no one heard or seen her since the Big video game crash of the early 80s? She keep a low profile these days? She was on Stella at 20 volume two. Generally, yes. I know someone who has contacted her in the last year or so regarding an interview on River Raid but she declined. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Did she get a sex change?..no that was one of the Kitchen bothers,IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Carol Shaw I met her when I was working for Activision. Her algorithm for creating the landscape in River Raid is one of the most elegant pieces of programming I ever saw. Side note -- her brother Steve did the Apple version of Deluxe Paint for Electronic Arts. What did you do there? What did she look like? What was her personality like? Uptight librarian, slutty hippie, nose in the air know-it-all, down-to-earth normal person? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Carol Shaw I met her when I was working for Activision. Her algorithm for creating the landscape in River Raid is one of the most elegant pieces of programming I ever saw. Side note -- her brother Steve did the Apple version of Deluxe Paint for Electronic Arts. What did you do there? What did she look like? What was her personality like? Uptight librarian, slutty hippie, nose in the air know-it-all, down-to-earth normal person? I think he was quoting David Lubar there. Moycon only wishes he worked at Activision (as do we all). Tempest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I think he was quoting David Lubar there. Moycon only wishes he worked at Activision (as do we all). Should have known it was too good to be true. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercat Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Did she get a sex change?..no that was one of the Kitchen bothers,IIRC. I thought it was the author of M.U.L.E. (Dan/Dani Bunton, IIRC)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Did she get a sex change?..no that was one of the Kitchen bothers,IIRC. I thought it was the author of M.U.L.E. (Dan/Dani Bunton, IIRC)? There's something about game design that makes people want to wear a dress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Bunten_Berry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...ost&p=47708 Maybe doing anything can make you want to wear a dress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transgender_people If you want to keep your winkie, it's probably best to stay home and avoid any creative activities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Did she get a sex change?..no that was one of the Kitchen bothers,IIRC. I thought it was the author of M.U.L.E. (Dan/Dani Bunton, IIRC)? There's something about game design that makes people want to wear a dress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Bunten_Berry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...ost&p=47708 Maybe doing anything can make you want to wear a dress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transgender_people If you want to keep your winkie, it's probably best to stay home and avoid any creative activities. Oddly enough, we had a discussion about this at Seans party. We came up with 5 people: Dan Bunten Bill Heineman William Mataga Steve Kitchen Jay Fenton There may be another Atari person, but we couldn't recall the name. Still, five is a lot considering they're all game programmers. Must be something in the water... Tempest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 It's probably just living in CA 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman Noooo!!!!!! Burger Bill?? I hung out with him a few times when I was on the West Coast. I was hoping to work on a classic game project with him but it fell through. I never had a clue he'd do that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 (edited) BTW, Carol shaw used to have the domain www.carol.com. I suppose that was too lucrative a domain to hang on to, because it's obviously not owned by her anymore, but while it was up she used to put info about what she was working on, and you could email her at carol@carol.com. I mean no disrespect, but she's clearly a textbook geek with limited interpersonal skills. She's fully aware of that, which is why, while she's by no means antisocial, she is definitely camera shy. It took a lot of coaxing to get her to appear in Stella at 20, a lot of help from her peers to complete the segment on her games, and a lot of careful editing to try to present her in the best possible light. BTW, I found Doug Neubauer quite similar to Carol, but a bit more capable of being interviewed. His memory of the Atari days was surprisingly spotty. He was really not what I expected him to be at all. He talked about his games in a very layman-like or anthropomorphic way. He's pointing to the football players in Super Football like he's watching reptiles run around in a terrarium saying "and then the guys kinda run down here but they REALLY want to go this way to avoid the flicker". I was expecting him to think of his games in a more clinical, technical fashion. I guess he's more of the quintessential hacker than a cold and calculating coding genius. By and large the programmers who have done interviews and shown up at the conventions are the only ones you'd really want to hear from. Not everybody can be the life of the party like, let's say, a Eugene Jarvis. Edited October 15, 2008 by mos6507 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 (edited) I hope i didnt slander anyone,but since when is a sex change a crime?its so accepted now,and any other ALTERNATIVE lifestyle,which is cool,live and let live right ,anyway, I swear to god i read that a well known classic game programmer had a sex change from man to woman,and that it was one of the Kitchen bros,i might be wrong,but im about 80% sure,Can someone verify?There were quite a few game designers who had an alternative lifestyle,and quite a few who had sex changes,just interested to know.Dont laugh,i think there might be a shred of truth to this supposed MYTH that game designing attracted alot of alternative lifestyle folks for some reason. Edited October 17, 2008 by Rik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Propane13 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Look up at Tempest's post. Steve Kitchen is there. -John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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