New Daedalus Project report on roleplaying
The latest issue of the Daedalus Project is out. Key statistical findings this time:
- 60% of people say they have roleplayed, with no significant age or gender differences.
Game talk
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.
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Matt Mihaly is blogging
Matt runs Iron Realms. They do Achaea, among other things. He’s also a contentious coot. 😉 Should be fun! Over here.
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Avatar-Based Marketing
There’s an exhaustively researched article over at the Harvard Business Review on this topic.
Among the tidbits they drop are some Second Life stats:
- 165,000 total active residents,
- of which 65,000 are paying in some form,
- and “over 3000” are making real world money,
- averaging $20,000 a year each (skewed by the really high earners, of course).
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Why don’t our NPCs…
In thinking about the UO resource system in recent posts (1, 2, 3), I also got to thinking about other things that we either wanted to or tried to get the NPCs to do. Today, NPCs have gradually evolved more and more towards being quest dispensers. Originally, we wanted NPCs that would give the illusion of life.
But there were a few bumps on the road, and today NPCs in all the games pretty much suck.
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Hints and Riddles