September 2007

• Activity Duration in MMOs (was: [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs) Damion Schubert
• • Activity Duration in MMOs (was: [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs) Aurel Mihai
  • • [DESIGN] Where massive? John Buehler
    • • [DESIGN] Where massive? Damion Schubert
      • • [DESIGN] Where massive? Aurel Mihai
        • • [DESIGN] Where massive? Richard A. Bartle
          • [DESIGN] Where massive? Damion Schubert
    • Activity Duration in MMOs (was: [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs) Michael Hartman
    • • Activity Duration in MMOs (was: [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs) Roger Hicks
      • Activity Duration in MMOs (was: [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs) Christopher Lloyd
      • Activity Duration in MMOs (was: [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs) Damion Schubert
      • • Activity Duration in MMOs (was: [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs) Michael Hartman
        • • Activity Duration in MMOs (was: [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs) Damion Schubert
          • • Activity Duration in MMOs (was: [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs) Michael Hartman
            • • Activity Duration in MMOs (was: [DESIGN] Spore andMMOs) Mike Sellers
              • Activity Duration in MMOs (was: [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs) Vincent Archer
              • Activity Duration in MMOs (was: [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs) John Buehler
• [DESIGN] Character Growth Models (Was: Removing the almighty experience point...) Ian Hess
• • [DESIGN] Character Growth Models (Was: Removing the almighty experience point...) Aurel Mihai
  • • [DESIGN] Character Growth Models (Was: Removing the almighty experience point...) cruise
• [BIZ] Community-building books Mike Rozak
• [MEDIA] Intel Purchases Game Tools Firm Havok Mike Rozak
• • [MEDIA] Intel Purchases Game Tools Firm Havok Jon Mayo
  • • [MEDIA] Intel Purchases Game Tools Firm Havok Peter Keeler
    • • [MEDIA] Intel Purchases Game Tools Firm Havok Mike Rozak
• [DESIGN] Factor of 16 Mike Rozak
• • [DESIGN] Factor of 16 Aurel Mihai
  • [DESIGN] Factor of 16 Michael Hartman
• [DESIGN] Player-generated content cruise
• • [DESIGN] Player-generated content Lachek Butalek
  • • [DESIGN] Player-generated content Darryl Woodford
    • [DESIGN] Player-generated content cruise
    • • [DESIGN] Player-generated content John Buehler
      • • [DESIGN] Player-generated content cruise
        • • [DESIGN] Player-generated content John Buehler
          • • [DESIGN] Player-generated content Damion Schubert
            • • [DESIGN] Player-generated content John Buehler
            • [DESIGN] Player skill vs. Character Skill [was: Player-generated content] cruise
            • [DESIGN] Player-generated content Vincent Archer
            • • [DESIGN] Player-generated content John Buehler
  • [DESIGN] Player-generated content Caliban Darklock
  • • [DESIGN] Player-generated content cruise
    • • [DESIGN] Player-generated content Tom Hudson
  • [DESIGN] Player-generated content Matt Chatterley
• [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace cruise
• • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace Caliban Darklock
  • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace Ammon Lauritzen
  • • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace cruise
    • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace Bristle
    • • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace Shannon Sullivan
      • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace Dave Scheffer
      • • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace Raph Koster
      • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace Morris Cox
  • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace Matt Chatterley
  • • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace Dana V. Baldwin
    • • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace Matt Chatterley
        On 28/09/2007, Dana V. Baldwin <dbaldwin@playnet.com> wrote:
        >
        > Matt Chatterley wrote:
        > [Snip my own post]
        >
        > I've been recently on the Fiest kick again myself and your post reminded
        > me of a hub world I built for NWN where the different NPCs would send
        > the group on the server on an adventure (launching a module on the
        > server) and they could talk to an NPC in the new module that I custom
        > placed to bring them back.
        >
        > Certainly nothing extraordinary there but it made for a very fun and
        > quick persistent style world for the guys on my server.
        >
        > I should think that Aerea (I can never spell that thing Raf!) will be
        > rife with similar things much the way that other VWs have portal areas.
        > Hosting a portal area with an RSS feed and some community tools for
        > rating the destinations might make for a wonderful utility world for
        > other avatars. A BoingBoing (or Digg for that matter) for the "Web 3.d"
        > or whatever we care to call virtual web worlds this week.
        >
        > I think I've found my second project.
        >
        > Now to wait on that alpha invitation (I know you're listening!).
        
        
        Very cool idea within the NWN framework. Generally the "hall of worlds" is
        one of the semi-cliches in the fantasy/sci-fi genre - allowing the content
        author (applies to all types of media) to use different themes within their
        "main theme" - your "main theme" might be high fantasy with elves, goblins
        and fireballs - but through the mystic "Path to all Places" you can send
        characters into the middle of the hi-tech war between the Spoogles and the
        Selgoops, should you wish.
        
        I do recall a comical interlude between serious D&D campaigns where my party
        found a strange egg-shaped device with a small metal spike (with a hoop on
        the end) stuck through the top, amongst a cache of other strange items.
        Fortunately the thief ran away after the fighter pulled out the spike, and
        we followed him. The DM was generous on the timer ;)
        
        When well executed, it's a great mechanism, but it can become trite if
        overused in story flow, I feel. Feist built his stories (at least the ones
        I'm familiar with!) around the idea of travel to other places, but was
        careful to focus on only one or two - the story was centered in Midkemia (or
        Kelewan), but used other places as hooks to move the story on and give the
        reader occasional mind-candy.
        
        Something which might be fun to recreate in a series of interlinked worlds
        would be something akin to the Inn in his Hall of Worlds, perhaps - it would
        be a good excuse to set up a "casino" VW too! ;)
        
        --Matt
      • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace Morris Cox
    • [ANNOUNCE] MetaPlace Vincent Archer
• [DESIGN] Spore and MMOs Michael Hartman