August 2007

• [NEWS] New Payment Service For Microtransactions Nick Koranda
• • [NEWS] New Payment Service For Microtransactions Michael Chui
• BIZ: welcome back to me (warning long but exciting) Frank Crowell
• Austin GDC meet: Web 2.0 and Games Adam Martin
• • Austin GDC meet: Web 2.0 and Games Robert Flesch
  • Austin GDC meet: Web 2.0 and Games Jeffrey Kesselman
  • Austin GDC meet: Web 2.0 and Games Morgan Ramsay
  • Austin GDC meet: Web 2.0 and Games Bristle
  • • Austin GDC meet: Web 2.0 and Games Adam Martin
    • • Austin GDC meet: Web 2.0 and Games Bristle
    • Austin GDC meet: Web 2.0 and Games Michael Chui
    • Austin GDC meet: Web 2.0 and Games Matt Chatterley
    • • Austin GDC meet: Web 2.0 and Games Adam Martin
• [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs Michael Chui
• • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs Lachek Butalek
  • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs Johnicholas Hines
  • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs John Buehler
  • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs Mike Rozak
    Michael Chui wrote:
    > Will Wright and Spore have a decidedly advantageous position. Everyone
    > is expecting miracles and wonders etc. One thing I want to focus on,
    > however, is his coinage of "massively single-player": the idea that you
    > are affected and effect everyone else who plays, but the game remains
    > single-player in its essence. Spore implements this by uploading your
    > creations to a central server and pushing it back out to people to be
    > controlled by AI. And I wonder... will we start seeing ports of this
    > concept to more traditional genres, like the Strategy, the FPS, the RPG?
    
    I first heard "massively single player" w/regards to guild wars. No
    matter...
    
    The meta-question is: A community develops around any game/genre. How much
    is that community allowed/encouraged to affect the gameplay? At one extreme
    is a highly PvP world, or Second Life. At the other is a single-player game
    with forums. Lots of stuff can happen in-between... and it isn't necessarily
    a linear spectrum either.
    
    Some in-betweens include: WoW, user-created mini-worlds, the sims (offline),
    etc.
  • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs ghovs@plex.nl
  • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs cruise
  • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs Ren Reynolds
  • • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs Aurel Mihai
    • • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs John Buehler
      • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs Michael Chui
      • • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs cruise
      • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs Amanda Walker
      • • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs Jean, Yannick
      • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs Vincent Archer
• [Tech] 3rd Party Launcher/Patcher Wilfried Henseler
• [BIZ ] Project Darkstar - revisited after the last visit Bristle
• • [BIZ ] Project Darkstar - revisited after the last visit Jeffrey Kesselman
  • • [BIZ ] Project Darkstar - revisited after the last visit tigeba
    • [BIZ ] Project Darkstar - revisited after the last visit Bristle
• [BIZ] Project Darkstar - my take on it Bristle
• • [BIZ] Project Darkstar - my take on it Jeffrey Kesselman
  • • [BIZ] Project Darkstar - my take on it Bristle
    • [BIZ] Project Darkstar - my take on it Michael Hartman
    • • [BIZ] Project Darkstar - my take on it Jeffrey Kesselman
  • [BIZ] Project Darkstar - my take on it Adam Martin