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Amy Jo Kim has a great presentation from ETech called Putting the Fun in Functional that not only articulates how to use some of the fundamental building blocks of games for other purposes, but calls out in stark form what some of those principles are.
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First, read this.
Short form is what we already knew:
Then, ask yourself the following questions:
This one from n3rfed. It bears some similarities to Darniaq’s.
Cosmik’s observations in this one are based on his recent sojourn in Japan.
According to him, anyway. Worth reading. I think I agree with most everything he says.
Besides, who can quarrel with this?
The future of MMOGs does not reside in different death penalties and faster leveling speeds in my opinion.
It resides in penguins.
I’ve been on the penguin bandwagon for a while now, after all.
Not that long ago, I was talking with the guys here about a concept that had come to me, for a puzzle game that taught you how to cook. Now here it is, for the Nintendo DS.
