February 2006

• Design: Food in MMOs Lachek Butalek
• • Design: Food in MMOs John Buehler
  • Design: Food in MMOs cruise
• Gathering at/near GDC? Amanda Walker
• Procedural Content Generation [was Design: Episodic MMOG's (not expansionistic)] Sasha Hart
• Persistent teaming olag@ifi.uio.no
• • Persistent teaming cruise
• New Columns at Skotos Shannon Appelcline
• Soapbox: World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things by David Sirlin David Love
• GDC Social Bridget
• Best of Skotos Article Listing Shannon Appelcline
  As part of the expansions of the Skotos Articles Archive I posted a
  column today listing 25 of the best articles that we posted in our
  first three years (2000-2003). You can find it here:
  
  http://www.skotos.net/articles/TTnT_/TTnT_184.phtml
  
  There's the famouse Mulligan/Koster set on the purpose of games, a
  series on unusual genres for game design, a column on how stories are
  designed in the creative writing medium, some articles on trueness to
  historical time periods, and my own series on mythology & game design.
  
  Shannon
• Simulation vs. Status Quo John Mauney