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
        The biggest problem with second life as an MMO platform is the first M.
        In the end your not going to scale that much better then NWN did. And
        NW has much nicer end user tools.
        
        And then tehre is the additional problem of 2L's non-existant security model.
        
        Actually NWn stands as a great example of how much game design and
        story creativity can be expressed by amatures when they have tools
        that they can easily use. Anyone who is intersted in this space who
        hasn't already cheked out the out the vast wealth of player-crated NWN
        modules really should.
        
        I cant resist putting a short plug in for a project related to my own,
        if you will forgive me. The Wonderland project is a truly open source
        (right now) toolkit for building virtual worlds. Its slanted towards
        business uses but there is a already a LOT of university work going on
        exploring its uses for education Its still early and the tools are
        still actively evolving but there is a very active open source
        community both adding to it and helping the core development team make
        design decisions for those tools.
        
        As its being built ontop of my baby , Project Darkstar, in the long
        run it is going to scale both painlessly and massively. And since
        their target is business uses, its had a solid security model designed
        into its core since day one.
        
        
        
        
        
        
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• [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
  • [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