documenting the future
When a player starts a new character, the creative process sits somewhere on a spectrum between designing a fleshed-out background and creating a skeleton to ‘discover’ the character over time.
As an example, I preferred the latter for Joron, a character in Star Wars Galaxies. When I originally created him as a throwaway character to explore [...]
I recently started playing a new MMOG on a trial basis because I have family members who play it. The game itself doesn’t seem to be holding me for any number of reasons, but two things stood out to me as the trial has progressed:
First, as noted, what pulled me to the game had nothing [...]
Given their focus on near-future technology and networking, and the pervasiveness with which the future is infiltrating our lives, cyberpunk-themed MMOGs should in reality rank among the most popular. But they don’t.
Neocron and Matrix Online have both managed to stay online for now, but they never achieved much popularity and have well-publicized business problems. Neocron [...]
Confirmed by Portfolio: a KOTOR MMORPG. More after I can start breathing again.
Working on an inaugural podcast for the weekend, so nothing in-depth here. Here’s what’s grabbed my attention lately, though. Intentionally not categorized.
I WANT TO BELIEVE.
Blizzard wins against a third-party program. (More analysis)
Go pre-order The Guild.
Standard Model of Sociophysics (via)
Science versus Magic. RIP, Sir ACC.
I’ve had some really interesting discussions recently with a friend from SWG regarding MMORPG design. To be fair, we’ve had these discussions for a long time, but the recent conversations have really hit some hot buttons for me.
What is unique about SWG that causes so much angst among RPers? This is a MMORPG where roleplayers [...]
Like Fox Mulder, I WANT TO BELIEVE.
Lucasfilm Entertainment Company filed several trademark registrations in the last week or so.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
The Old Republic
Star Wars Legends
Star Wars Sagas
The trademarks are classed as online computer games. Is this the Bioware MMORPG project? Because… squeeee!
Disclosure: I was the Roleplay Senator for Star Wars Galaxies for several months in early 2008 and stepped down for health reasons. Today, I still have an active SWG subscription but rarely play the game.
I’ve been mulling over the recent comments by the SWG lead designer, Blixtev.
“Too much time was spent on that “feedback” like [...]
Like a lot of other folks interested in the social Web, or just the Web overall, I have a lot of profiles scattered across many different sites: Amazon, Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Wordpress, YouTube, LinkedIn, del.icio.us, etc. And then there are my identities in MMORPGs; this is not a separate problem from Web sites. End users [...]
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