June 2004

• believable NPCs (was Natural Language Generation) Mike Rozak
• TECH: MUD Skeleton Craig L.
• DGN: Space MUD 67Me You
• • DGN: Space MUD ceo
  • DGN: Space MUD Sean Howard
  • DGN: Space MUD Tracy Lee
• AI in gauntlet (was: Natural Language Generation) ceo
• [DGN/BIZ] Why player dont play multi user race or is there a market for multiuser race? stéphane Garin
• • [DGN/BIZ] Why player dont play multi user race or is there a market for multiuser race? Eric Lamy
  • [DGN/BIZ] Why player dont play multi user race or is therea market for multiuser race? Matt Mihaly
  • [DGN/BIZ] Why player dont play multi user race or is there a market for multiuser race? ceo
  • [DGN/BIZ] Why player dont play multi user race or is there a market for multiuser race? Damion Schubert
• [SVEvents] 6/22, J C Lawrence
• BIZ: MMOs in China Chris Yeh
• • BIZ: MMOs in China satya@gamedevid.org
  • • BIZ: MMOs in China Tiago Carita
  • BIZ: MMOs in China Damion Schubert
• JOB: Shattered Prism: Lost Wastelands Trace Kern
• [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Peter Keeler
• • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Matt Mihaly
  • • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
    • • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Matt Mihaly
      • • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
        • • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Matt Mihaly
  • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Freeman, Jeff
  • • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Peter Keeler
  • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Scott Jennings
  • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market ren@aldermangroup.com
  • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Freeman, Jeff
  • • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Scott Jennings
    • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Vladimir Cole
    • • [NEWS] Gaming Open Market Freeman, Jeff
• submissions for MMP Gems book ceo
• [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? David Kennerly
• • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? mike stedman
  • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Jim Purbrick
  • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Adam
  • • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Jim Purbrick
    • • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? ceo
        Jim Purbrick wrote:
        
        > FWIW this is no longer a problem.
        
        :) I was sure you got that solved long ago
        
        > I'm not convinced. One lesson that I've learned from this is that
        > while there are difficult and interesting technical issues to
        > solve developing MMOs, the biggest problems are
        > managerial. Dealing with the vast amounts of content that are
        > produced and need to be produced dwarf any tricky technical
        > problem that need to be
        
        Can you elaborate on what you mean by "managerial"? My initial
        reading was to assume "personnel management", closely followed by
        "project management", neither of which I think are what you meant.
        
        FYI, our take on this has long been that the biggest problems are
        maintenance and ongoing-dev. Hence encouraging developers not to
        write in OOP, nor in imperative scripting languages, but in inferred
        languages (since these are far far easier to update old code with
        unplanned-for game-features and exceptions to rules etc).
        
        Is this kind of thing (maintenance, ongoing-dev) stuff that you
        encompass in your phrase "managerial"? If you think of that word in
        less of a "manager-as-person"-centric way then I could see how you
        would.
        
        > solved. It's something that Raph was telling me at Siggraph a
        > couple of years ago when I was trying to sell him middleware and
        > he didn't want to hear about anything other than better ways to
        > create and manage content. A lot of the middleware solutions are
        > very nice technical solutions, but they still leave you with all
        > the content management problems to solve. Even if you bring
        > someone in half way through the project to build the server tech
        > from scratch they'll be done before you've solved the content
        > creation problems.
        
        I guess that partially depends on where you place the boundaries
        when ring-fencing "server tech". I tend to include all development
        and maintenance code+tools+processes as part of the "server tech",
        since with an MMOG they are (IMHO) intimately intertwined.
        
        e.g. whether or not your server process allows runtime reloading
        of code mandates how those other processes can/will work.
        
        Adam M
  • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Mike Rozak
  • • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Jon A. Lambert
    • • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? J C Lawrence
  • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Luca Girardo
  • • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Matt Mihaly
  • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Richard A. Bartle
  • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Luca Girardo
  • • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Tazzik
    • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Michael Sellers
  • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Mike Rozak
  • [NEWS] Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why? Luca Girardo
• DGN/HUMOR: Virtual worlds and virtual holidays Mike Rozak
• • DGN/HUMOR: Virtual worlds and virtual holidays Michael "Flury" Chui
  • • DGN/HUMOR: Virtual worlds and virtual holidays Mike Rozak
  • DGN/HUMOR: Virtual worlds and virtual holidays Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• "USPs" (was: Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why?) Michael Sellers
• • "USPs" ceo
  • • "USPs" Luca Girardo
  • "USPs" (was: Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why?) Derek Licciardi
  • • "USPs" (was: Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why?) Threshold RPG
    • "USPs" (was: Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why?) Mike Rozak
    • • "USPs" (was: Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why?) Matt Mihaly
      • "USPs" (was: Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why?) Vincent Archer
    • "USPs" (was: Warhammer Online Cancelled -- Why?) Damion Schubert
  • "USPs" Scott Macmillan
• Exponential experience points and levels ceo
• • Exponential experience points and levels cruise
  • Exponential experience points and levels Sean Middleditch
  • • Exponential experience points and levels Jesus Lopez
    • Exponential experience points and levels Adam
    • • Exponential experience points and levels Sean Middleditch
    • Exponential experience points and levels Steven King
    • • Exponential experience points and levels Ghilardi Filippo
  • Exponential experience points and levels zgj22@drexel.edu
  • • Exponential experience points and levels ceo
    • Exponential experience points and levels mike stedman
    • • Exponential experience points and levels zgj22@drexel.edu
  • Exponential experience points and levels David Kennerly
  • • Exponential experience points and levels Vincent Archer
• Virtual/Real Currencies (was: [NEWS] Gaming Open Market) David Blankley
• • Virtual/Real Currencies (was: [NEWS] Gaming Open Market) Freeman, Jeff
  • • Virtual/Real Currencies (was: [NEWS] Gaming Open Market) Scott Tengelin
    • Virtual/Real Currencies (was: [NEWS] Gaming OpenMarket) Dana V. Baldwin
    • • Virtual/Real Currencies (was: [NEWS] GamingOpenMarket) Freeman, Jeff
      • • Virtual/Real Currencies (was: [NEWS]GamingOpenMarket) Dana V. Baldwin
    • Virtual/Real Currencies (was: [NEWS] Gaming Open Market) Timothy Dang