Another contender for “first ever video game.” Sure seems like there’s a lot of these. 🙂
May 242006
Today’s interesting game news roundup
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May 242006
More evidence that games can help train, at least certain skills anyway.
Moves to get rid of second-hand game sales. Hmm.
The 100 fastest growing tech companies list is out, and it includes one gaming company. If you count Lotto.
It’s really interesting to read the way this article is slanted to the pro-game side with lots of little journalistic touches. 🙂
Horses and the user-governed world
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May 242006
Prokofy Neva said, in the Metaverse roadmap discussion thread,
What’s so tangled and complex about “who governs” (or as I put it often, “who develops?”) The game devs develop, and the game devs govern. Their junior partners, in the form of mods or wizards or junior devs or whatever are merely replications.
It’s hard to conceive of how complex governance will really get in a four-walls game world if the players cannot at some point leverage their power as consumers/prosumers/payers for the server into forcing a sharing of power, and a separation of powers, so that not only an overweening executive always prevails.
Well, the tangled bit seems to me to be the issue of not whether the game operators are willing to hand over the power (some will, somewhere) but how they hand over the power. The complicated bits are:
The Flogging Will Continue…
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May 232006
Daniel James is blogging. So I have duly added him to the blogroll!
Gaia Online
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May 232006
Social networking services are looking closely at the world of MMOs for cues, and some of the first things they pick up on is avatars. Gaia Online is one I just registered for today, to check it out.
