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[thebruce]

I'd almost suggest if we go with a public version of the public, it should be different. I honestly believe the book that goes to Tyler should be unique and special for their family, not the same thing that everyone else gets.

[Pixiestix]

[kosmopol]

[cabalaagent23sister]

My dear brother

[Sunny du Pree]

Dave

[rose]

I'm still in shock about this, I can't believe that Dave won't be around anymore. He will be missed.

Like I said, I'm going down to the viewing on Sunday, I'll print out this thread and the thread about the cranes so that Dave's family will have a hard copy of it. If anyone else wants to post, I'll print this off around 11:00 Sunday morning EST.

[Varin]

I had a lovely little dream last night about Dave and PashaP. (PashaP was a player of ringorang that many of us knew. He passed away last night due to lung cancer). Well, Dave and Pasha were dancing and smiling and very happy. After a bit, they turned and waved to me. They had huge, happy smiles on their faces. And I woke up.

Part of me thinks this was just my brain trying to cheer me up, but the other part hopes that Dave and Pasha were trying to send me a lovely little goodbye message.

[GalvanicSpiral]

Re: My dear brother

[Euchre]

[bagsbee]

rose gave me the sad news today. man, this sucks.

Dave helped us organize/design the Fest Quest in NYC in '05. He had just lost a very close family member and was obviously hurting, but he came through and kept his commitment, because the community meant that much to him. That was when I became a lifelong Dave Szulborski fan.

His contributions to and influence on the ARG genre are vast and cannot be overstated. Not to mention, he was a really, really nice guy.

Godspeed, Dave.

[cabalaagent23sister]

[rebel2k4]

It is very hard to see someone who was regarded as a pioneer in this business pass away.

I never knew him personally...but when a man who was as brilliant as he was becomes a legend in this new form of media just by his brains...you got to give him props.

My condolences to his family and to all of you who knew him better and who made a crane...bless you all.


eta: After watching the ARG Speech of Dave's and looking at his credits...he worked on my favorite ARG that I ever played...the Art of The Heist. I was the reporter in the NYC Audi Party event.

Great game.

Jason Block
Brooklyn, NY

[konamouse]

konashark also sends his condolences.
While he never actively played any of Dave's ARGs with me, he lived in Aglaura & watched me in Urban Hunt; then happily presented me with the box from Monster Hunter Club when it showed up on our doorstep (well trained to identify anything addressed to 'konamouse' as being ARG).
Shark also traveled with me to ARGFest Orlando where we met Dave in person for the first time, and he took us all to dinner when Dave visited Las Vegas.

Shark suggests that the Dave story I will put together for the memory book should be my multiple personality 'disorder' during CTW when I was playing 'myself' (konamouse aka Heather), a character ('Angie") and then Dave had to communicate with my real self about the character. And that both my game playing persona "Heather" and my ingame character "Angie" were both flirting with the character Bruce Abbott. But poor Dave started getting confused in his emails (but never revealed anything about the story/game to the wrong person).

[Giskard]

We had originally planned to release the videos from last year's ARGFest over the course of the next couple of months, but upon request and because we think it's a beautiful way to honor his memory, we put up the video of Dave's keynote speech on argfestocon.com

You can view it here, where it's also available to download in .avi form.

[rose]

bethlehem