BambooGarden

The Bamboo Garden

In the late 1990s, there was a thriving GlassBeadGame scene in the Seattle area. The local GBG workshop was called the Bamboo Garden after the "Bamboo Grove", the hermitage where Joseph Knecht studied the I Ching in TheNovel). Each member of the Bamboo Garden had an idiosyncratic version/vision of the Game.

• Karl_Erickson? was an occasional member of the BambooGarden. At his old home page, idioverse (cache), you can see much GBGish stuff. His gbg was MemeStruck?, geometrical modelling software that allowed semantic tags, forming interactive sculptures out of information.
• Ron_Hale-Evans? is a founding member of the Bamboo Garden of the Center for Ludic Synergy. His GBG is called Kennexions.
• Mark_Line?, another founding Bamboo Gardener, dropped out of the Seattle GBG scene around the fin de millennium. He still has a page devoted to his Waldzell Institute, which unfortunately has not been updated in some time. You can find out about his Waldzell gbg there and read archives of GBG-List.
• Gail_Sullivan? was also a founding member of the Bamboo Garden. Her Glass Bead Game Central (cache) was at one time the best place to find out about the GlassBeadGame on the Web. It included a detailed explanation of her own BlissMember? gbg as well as an introduction to several other gameforms. Gail dropped out of the GBG scene in 1999, when she became active in Y2K preparations.