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.
Yes, yes, I promise I will write “Do levels suck? Part Two” soon.
In the meantime, Terra Nova: How to end a world? discusses the end of Asheron’s Call 2. It calls to mind for me, however, the ways in which betas have ended.
At the end of the UO beta, we had a very lengthy beta event to better explain the storyline. It was one of the few events that I’ve gotten to write for an MMO, and I jumped in with short stories and everything!
Many thanks to Kiyoshi Shin for the first review of A Theory of Fun in Japan!
Looks like you can pick the book up at Amazon.jp and at O’Reilly Japan.
Gotta Love Google translation, btw:
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I mentioned in the comment thread for part one of “Do Levels Suck?” that I ought to post one of the old LegendMUD quests I designed and implemented way back when.
So here it is, offered up as proof that I don’t just do sandboxes. 🙂
I’ve said in the past that levels suck.
A few things that have been written about lately, however, prompt me to dig a little bit more at that long-held tenet of mine, because while constant self-doubt is debilitating (trust me), it also often opens up surprising new doors.
My objection to levels in the past has been based around the following:
I added a button to the sidebar on the right so that all of you Johnny-and-Jane-come-latelies can go see what I am referencing constantly, and get a taste of why I say that MUDs are basically the same as MMORPGs, and have a look at old-school text gaming. Let me know what you think. 🙂
