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
  • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs ghovs@plex.nl
  • [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs cruise
    Thus spake Michael Chui...
    > I see two paths for this. One is the "truly single-player" approach. In
    > this case, you'd be doing what Spore is doing: making stuff, uploading
    > it to a server for inclusion into others' games and that'd be the end of
    > your contribution.
    
    I see this only as an automation of the mapping/modding scene that
    already exists, really; that has been happening for a long time.
    
    > The other is a kind of PBEM/Hotseat Civilization-type of approach,
    > wherein there are periodic updates of changes. For instance, consider a
    > game of Battlefield played across a couple dozen sessions of
    > Counterstrike, each session involving different groups of related and
    > allied persons. You'd have specific missions: essentially, "Capture this
    > point." and the outcome would be saved and the next group to play would
    > have to deal with it thusly.
    
    This I do like - the recent discussions on griefing and socialisation
    generally ended with calls to "instance" or cluster similar playstyles
    together.
    
    This seems an excellent way to do that - each server or instance can
    register with a central server, and the results of each round, raid or
    mission can be collated.
    
    In fact, it seems an excellent way of combining multiple different
    gaming genres - strategy and FPS are the obvious mixes, but even
    something like adventure games could be included with a bit of thought.
  • [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