MP/SL event: Emerging Trends in Game Development

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Apr 102009
 

I’m going to at this Idea Exchange: Emerging Trends in Game Development virtual event in about an hour.

The Basics:

When: Friday, April 10th, 12:00PM PDT
Where: http://beta.metaplace.com/Interval/ or http://slurl.com/secondlife/Idea%20City/145/129/37
Topic: Emerging trends in game development.

Format:

This event will be an informal group discussion loosely led by Raph Koster, Adri Haik, and myself. We will present some trend that was discussed at GDC, discuss our experience with the trend, how we see it playing out, how it impacts our work, etc, and we will take whatever opportunities we can to engage the audience and encourage group participation in the discussion.

Possible trends to discuss:
– Microcontent
– Social game development
– Free-to-play MMOs
– Engagement and retention

This event will be held simultaneously in Metaplace and Second Life. I will be in both virtual worlds simultaneously, but chatting (via text) through Second Life. Raph will be chatting from Metaplace. Adri will be chatting from Second Life. Attendees will participate from both virtual worlds and will include both people working within the virtual world/gaming industries and consumers interested in emerging trends in game development. You are welcome to invite anyone you like.

  5 Responses to “MP/SL event: Emerging Trends in Game Development”

  1. Ray says:
    April 10, 2009 at 11:46 am

    I won’t be able to make it, unfortunately, but please post the transcript when it’s over. 🙂

  2. Raph says:
    April 10, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    Lots of stuff from today’s event.
    Pic: http://ow.ly/2yTu
    Log (MP beta access needed, sorry) http://ow.ly/2z1y

  3. Dusan Writer says:
    April 10, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    Great event – although as noted, I still object to having two avatars active at a time. My mind can be in multiple places, my identity fractured, my sense of self challenged by being virtual, my wallet being in a different city than me…but I can’t handle being in both SL and MP at once.

    I can barely handle being in two MP worlds – it lends new meaning to AFK – how about AFT – away from tab?

    Having said all that, it was fun to watch people message themselves from one world to another, especially when their SL selves were snarky with their MP selves, thankfully there wasn’t any interoperable tomato throwing, although by the sounds of it someone could script that up over night.

    Great event – and congrats on what felt like a pretty successful stress test. 🙂

  4. Frans Charming says:
    April 11, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    @Dusan I will see if I can script a tomato thrower for next time. 😛 It should be to just respond on a chat message from mp like /throw Dusan.

  5. Herdpress » First Cross-World “Idea Exchange” Event says:
    April 13, 2009 at 9:11 pm

    […] the virtual worlds of Second Life and Metaplace, which got announced on Metaversatility’s and Raph Koster’s blogs, briefly mentioned on Virtual Worlds News, and covered more extensively on Osprey’s, […]

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