This is the catch-all category for stuff about games and game design. It easily makes up the vast majority of the site’s content. If you are looking for something specific, I highly recommend looking into the tags used on the site instead. They can narrow down the hunt immensely.
This is a document that perhaps should get framed, just because it’s a landmark for it to exist at all. I speak of a Congressional press release about taxing virtual worlds (PDF) that actually responds to some of the MMORPG sites, including perhaps THIS one, about the issue of taxation in virtual worlds. It’s damn short, but an excerpt is after the fold anyway:
Recently I blogged about the Next Gen list of core books for everyone in the game industry. A few of the books on that list are hard to find or out of print. One of the best of them is Amy Jo Kim’s Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities — which it turns out you can obtain as a PDF by clicking on this link. Hooray for e-publishing! This is the best book I have ever read on online community formation and design, and it hasn’t become dated much at all even though it came out in 2000. Once, Alex Pham from the LA Times borrowed my (autographed) copy, and I pestered her for a year to get it back. 🙂
Virtual economies attract real-world tax attention – Yahoo! News
“Right now we’re at the preliminary stages of looking at the issue and what kind of public policy questions virtual economies raise — taxes, barter exchanges, property and wealth,” said Dan Miller, senior economist for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.
This presentation, originally from the KGDI’s Seo Tae Geon, was passed on to me by Gordon Walton, and apparently is freely distributed by the KGDI to anyone who asks. It provides some info on the Korean market for games. You can take a look here (2.4MB PDF) if you’re curious. Some of the key stats:
I dig this a lot — it’s like a formalized format for running local Indie Game Jams Check it out here: Ad Lib Game Development Society. Looks like there’s only one chapter right now, but maybe we can prompt the creation of a few more?
The Ad Lib Game Development Society (ALGDS) is an fledgeling organization of intrepid game developers who attempt to challenge, amuse, and better ourselves through the frequent practice of spontaneous, rapid game design and development.
The society itself comprises different local area chapters, called Lodges, each of which adheres to the principles and patterns of the whole while maintaining its own diversity in terms of specific practices.
