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.
Here’s the full post, but my abbreviated excerpts are:
- As players mature, play multiple MMOs, and repeatedly experience very similar games, they can be expected to look for different game styles or even to look for worlds.
Read More “Mischiefblog designs the next generation of MMOs”
As usual, here’s my summary of the latest issue of the Daedalus Project.
Cory Ondrejka of Linden Lab has bet Dmitri Williams 25 cents that Second Life will have more users than WoW two years from now.
Read More “WoW or SL?”
This PDF of a presentation by Janet Murray is wide-ranging and challenges many basic notions about games and story, especially the whole “a game that makes you cry” meme.
I’d say more, but it’s lunchtime and I am starving. 🙂
The April 2006 issue of Computer Gaming World has a 2 page interview with yours truly. Some excerpts:
Both MMOs you’ve been involved with — Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies — earned CGW‘s Coaster of the Year award. Do you have anything to say about that?
I tend to think that part of the reason for the snubs is that people were let down when all our big dreams didn’t pan out. But the disappointment wouldn’t have been there if we weren’t dreaming big together in the first place. Many games settle for small dreams, but I am not interested in settling.
