Talk:Dreamscape (chat)

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While this initial entry about Dreamscape is wonderful to see, it doesn't capture the true wonder of a virtual community that is so much more than just CHAT. I was active in Dreamscape for about five years, even serving in the capacity of remote staff for a time. Though I no longer devote as much time to Dreamscape as I once did, I still regularly communicate with friends I met there. Outside of the online realm there are real life 'gatherings' that have occurred both domestically and internationally- I'm proud to have met the people behind the avatars on several occasions.

Are there those to whom this virtual world is nonsense and all a game? Yes. Conversely there are many who truly call Dreamscape home and carry memories of events experienced and friendships gained for the rest of their days. I am proud to have been a part of Dreamscape's first ten years and hope to see it celbrate many more years of success.

Joscelin 00:29, 14 May 2007 (UTC) Wikipedia entries are not meant to capture the "true wonder" of anything.

Also, can someone fix up this article? Widdlewabbit's additions are clearly biased. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.162.179 (talk) 00:43, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Mistake
The Dreamscape was originally created in 1994 by a team of world designers for Fujitsu America, headed by the virtual communities gurus Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar, who created the first graphical virtual world for George Lucas in 1987 called Club Caribe.

I think the above paragraph is wrong, the first graphical virtual world was called Habitat, which Club Caribe replaced. Someone please fix this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.75.119.40 (talk • contribs) 22:12, 5 June 2008

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was no consensus. --BDD (talk) 20:05, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Dreamscape (chat) → VZones – VZones currently redirects to WorldsAway. While it is true that VZones is the current version of WorldsAway, this article covers VZones itself. However, it's currently named after one VZones world, Dreamscape. Since it contains information on the other VZones world, New Horizone, as well, it would make sense for this page to be renamed VZones. --Relisted. Steel1943 (talk) 09:39, 4 November 2013 (UTC) JenniBees (talk) 01:35, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I disagree. DreamScape is a virtual world that existed before subsequent companies acquired it and put it under the umbrella term VZones, which also includes the virtual world NewHorizon, created after DreamScape.  Information pertaining to NewHorizon should be placed in a separate article referenced in this article.  This article should be modified to describe DreamScape and its history in more detail. → James Kidd  ( contr / talk / email ) 05:33, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Dreamscape was originally part of Worldsaway, and there is already an article on that. Dreamscape now is part of VZones, so this article should reflect that. JenniBees (talk) 18:44, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Credits and "Chat"
First, I was the world designer who came up with both the name and narrative design for this graphical virtual world. It wouldn't have been called "Dreamscape" without me. Once the service on Compuserve was active, I was Alayne the Storyteller who relayed stories written as historical background for the development of the world via live in-world events. There's a lot of Internet history that's not "verifiable" because it was ephemeral, and hence contributions by women like myself are the first to be lost. This was a long-term gig, and I went on to be an Bram Stoker Award-winning author (I don't have a Wikipedia page, but at least it's "verifiable").

Also, "Chat" is a ridiculous reduction of what this service was. Yes, people "chatted" in the Dreamscape, but they played games, roleplayed, got married, gave performances, and much, much more. Would you file The Sims under "Chat"? Didn't think so. There must be a better way to disambiguate this entry.

Born of Club Caribe and Habitat, the Dreamscape was an even more powerful experience that became the grandfather of every graphical virtual community we have today. The papers, the studies, everything that came out of these services contributed to the best practices design of future online games and communities, not to mention virtual community management. This all needs to be put in proper perspective. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to contribute to the page or not. If so, I'm happy to do the footwork to update the page according to Wikipedia standards.