February 2008

• Procedure as a solution for a growing set of stories Ian Hess
• [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? John A. Bertoglio
• • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Mike Rozak
  • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Sean Howard
• Specialization Paolo Piselli
• • Specialization Damion Schubert
• [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Aurel
• • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Jeffrey Kesselman
  • • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Aurel
    • • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Jeffrey Kesselman
• [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Bristle
• [ANNOUNCE] New LP lib packages available Cratylus
• • [ANNOUNCE] New LP lib packages available Michael Hartman
• [NEWS] NASA to explore strange, new virtual worlds Morris Cox
• [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Mike Rozak
• • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Jeffrey Kesselman
  • • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Mike Sellers
    • • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Mike Rozak
    • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? John Szeder
    • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Tess Snider
    • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Scott Jennings
      Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
      >
      > On Jan 30, 2008 5:16 PM, Mike Rozak <Mike@mxac.com.au> wrote:
      > > Several amateur MMORPG development kits are now on the market
      > (Multiverse, Realmcrafter, Torque), with more to come. Some amateur
      > authors are using the toolkits, but despite the fact that there are
      > around 100x as many MMORPG players as MUD players, there only seem
      > to be 10x as many amateur MMORPG authors as amateur MUD authors.
      > Why is this? Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs?
      > >
      > >
      > > Why haven't amateur authors flocked to these tools?
      > >
      >
      > Art costs are pretty heave for MMos.
      >
      > Still they occasionally crop up. There ae actually quite a few "free to
      > play/pay for improvements" little MMOs around. Watch your google ads--
      > I often see them in mine on gmail.
      >
      > Sometimes, you dont recognize them as amatures because of their success.
      > I'd call Runequest an amature MMO. Certainly they were when they
      > started.
      
      There's also a few fairly advanced projects in Second Life. One (City of
      Lost Angels) will I suspect be one of the first full-fledged games to
      launch using that platform, it's already pretty far along in
      development.
      
      http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/04/onders_game_cit.html
      http://www.cityoflostangels.biz/wiki/viewpage.php?page_id=6
  • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Chris Laponsie
  • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Richard Boehme
  • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Siege)
  • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Morris Cox