Virtual Worlds News has a great article on the developer of BarbieGirls.com. The company’s name is Studiocom, and they have some interesting things to say about trends in the market. (I shared a panel with Juan Pablo Gnecco, their CEO, at Living Game Worlds at Georgia Tech a year or two ago. They’re the same folks who worked on MyCoke Rewards).
Alas, she won it for writing a novel, not for a game.
This is nice news for the gaming industry because Naomi Novik is a former game designer — she worked on Bioware’s Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide.
So now the question is when a writer will win it for a game, instead of a book (no matter how great the books are).
Today we had an early birthday party for me (the actual date is Friday, but I will be in Austin at the AGDC) and I didn’t get to actually do anything for the Sunday Poem. So I am digging up an old song lyric and posting it.
Number 43
I knew a guy once who wrote a pop song
It was catchy and stupid, about two minutes long
Billboard counted it up to number forty-three
It was as inadequate as mediocre can be
Auto Assault closes today.
Got email from Chris Melissinos:
…we open sourced the Project Darkstar game server today! It has been released under GPLv2 and we are also going to be offering a commercial license to companies that feel “funny” about using GPL’d code.
