Comments on: The Golden Egg: neat crossworld stuff

By: Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds : The Metaverse Journal – Australia’s Virtual World News Service

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:48:53 +0000

[...] 2. Metaplace have been focusing in a big way on enhancing the community aspects of the platform – earning coins for visiting other users’ worlds was a big step in that direction. Founder Raph Koster talks about the introduction of the Golden Egg. [...]

By: Richard Bartle

Richard Bartle — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:01:31 +0000

>Any worldbuilder an install an egg in their world — it’s closed source, so they can’t get at the code that runs it, preventing exploits.

Couldn’t I make something that looked just like it which did something dubious if people clicked on it? They might decide to ignore any warning messages in the belief that it’s from Metaplace and not from an unscrupulous designer.

Richard

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:07:59 +0000

I would use the same kind of system for the tried-and-tested MMO kingpin — trophies.

Though Metaplace itself (as in you guys) are more like arbiters than actual interactive games masters, I’m sure someone could step up and provide a bunch of trophies with enough value to be proudly displayed in other worlds.

I don’t know what you would reward the trophies for, however. Perhaps ‘Break 50 concurrent users’ or ‘have multiple people in ten different zones within the same world’.

Anyway, yes, trophies = good thing. Trophies that are globally moderated by a trusted source = very good thing.

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The Golden Egg: neat crossworld stuff | Money and Technology — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:27:18 +0000

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