Video of Churchill Club panel now available
You can stream it from GameSpot and see whether in fact it deserved to set the Internet on fire the way it apparently has. 🙂
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Is the shift to online a fad?
It’s been really interesting to me to see the number of folks who don’t get what I am saying about the way market trends are leading irreversibly away from the traditional single-player game. Many are focusing on the examples I used of current connectivity thinking that “chatting on a messageboard” is all I mean. But it’s not all I mean, not at all… that’s just the current manifestation of things.
One of the key things that everyone seems to react to is the notion that the experiences they can get fom single-player games cannot be had in MMORPGs. But this is a false notion. You can literally embed an entire single-player game — say, Half-Life 2 — in an MMORPG. That’s what instances ARE. Thus far instances have been used to mostly make multiplayter games that are highly similar to the main game, but that’s barely scratching the surface of what can be done.
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The Sunday Poem: Bridge Saddle
The bridge saddle is the piece of wood, ivory, or plastic that goes in the bridge on a guitar and holds the strings up away from the surface of the wood. It is easily removeable, usually 2-3 inches long, 1/8th of an inch wide, and 1 inch deep. It is also utterly necessary. The bridge is located directly under the soundhole, and holds one end of the strings firm.
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Some recent reading
Been a while since I mentioned any of the books I’ve been reading… the last post was a month ago. Here’s some of the stuff I read in that month, with very brief reviews.
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Are single-player games doomed?
The entire video game industry’s history thus far has been an aberration. It has been a mutant monster only made possible by unconnected computers. People always play games together. All of you learned to play games with each other. When you were kids, you played tag, tea parties, cops and robbers, what have you. The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.
— me, at the Churchill Club
Well, that one set the cat among the pigeons…