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July 23, 2008
17:47
Zynga has raised a bunch of money to keep going after their target of building a network of more casual games — a sort of Internet version of a publisher. In fact, ex-EA Chief Creative Officer Bing Gordon has joined their board.
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus says:
He is super-involved in product strategy, brings the gaming DNA [...]
Source: Raph's Koster Website
Categories: Bloggers
06:02
My workplace would like to do an online survey, but we do not have the capacity to recruit survey participants. We can write the survey, but putting it on Survey Monkey and asking around will not do it for us. I have taken surveys through Greenfield Online, but I have no idea what [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
Categories: Bloggers
06:00
02:53
DuoCenti: The Murloc’s Family
This late in the evening, Mrgurlargl was the only one still awake. The others were curled around the campfire, full of wine and food and sleeping soundly. He couldn’t sleep, though, he was too proud, too excited to sleep.
“Die murloc filth!” Loldude247’s assault was swift. His sword sang death even [...]
Source: Raph's Koster Website
Categories: Bloggers
01:04
I am currently writing this on the new Wordpress for iPhone app that released today!
It’s about time that I can blog on my iPhone without trying to load my Wordpress dashboard on the EDGE network. Now if only (1 year later) I could type on the touch keyboard well enough to make [...]
Source: Cuppycake
Categories: Bloggers
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July 22, 2008
20:03
Rumor has it that The Middleman, probably the best SF/comedy on TV this season, is in danger! Not of cancellation, but of being restricted to just one season. Creator Javier Grillo-Marxuach writes on The Middleblog that despite stellar network support, ratings haven’t been great, and they have decided to end The Middleman at episode 12, [...]
Source: Tipa - West Karana
Categories: Bloggers
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PlayCrafter is launching open alpha, joining all the others: Sims Carnival, Gamebrix, Popfly… Looks to me like they lean heavily on Box2d.
One of the things about all of these is that they almost force a game grammar approach to things, in a way.
Source: Raph's Koster Website
Categories: Bloggers
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Let me preface this by saying I am a huge Joss Whedon fan. I think he’s one of the best character/dialogue writers in the business, and I have admired his work since the first days of Buffy. He’s also a great comic book author, bringing back Buffy and Angel, breathing new life into the X-Men, [...]
Source: Moorgard (Steve Danuser)
Categories: Bloggers
01:36
Real quick weekend notes here.
Went to the Del Mar Racetrack on Saturday. Luke insisted on betting $5.00 on a horse because the jockey was wearing “shocking pink”. So, I followed suit and we both won like $200 dollars. The horse was 43-1 and won. Man, I love horse racing. It’s the only gambling venue in [...]
Source: Cuppycake
Categories: Bloggers
July 21, 2008
22:55
Later this week I will be making my first trip to San Diego since leaving SOE. I’m heading out with a few other people from 38 Studios to attend Comic-Con 2008.
No, we won’t be spilling any beans on Copernicus (our MMO project), so those of you anxious to hear about the game will have to [...]
Source: Moorgard (Steve Danuser)
Categories: Bloggers
21:27
For those curious about the tech behind the Electric Sheep’s WebFlock platform, here’s a glimpse from a comment posted on Clickable Culture:
…the avatars are typically created in Maya or Max but they are rendered into sprites. That doesn’t prevent avatars from being individually personalized, but we haven’t finished that capability yet in our feature set.
You [...]
Source: Raph's Koster Website
Categories: Bloggers
19:15
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Hey, I’m on vacation all week, so nothing new this week. Have fun!
Source: Amber Night
Categories: Bloggers
17:00
Going through old blog files I found this. I don’t think it really needs much of an explanation, do you? (Click it for ze full size)
Source: BrokenToys - Lum
Categories: Bloggers
16:15
Tor.com, the new website for Tor Books, has launched officially. And they’re offering up for free download the bunches of books that they were giving away to newsletter subscribers in their run-up to launch.
Among the books you can grab in DRM-free formats: Old Man’s War, Spin, Farthing, Crystal Rain, and much more. Plus a zillion [...]
Source: Raph's Koster Website
Categories: Bloggers
15:53
I tend to play City of Heroes/Villains in spurts. Months will go buy without anything, and then I’ll play for eight hours straight.
I have lots of reasons not to play that much. Most of the game is in the character creator, which is justifiably awesome. Once I’ve made my character, she’s made and barring inventions [...]
Source: Tipa - West Karana
Categories: Bloggers
09:33
07:53
This week’s poem is a meditation on good and evil and faith and logic via Principia Mathematica, based on the news this week that some genes for violent antisocial behavior have been identified.
It turns out that up to one percent of the population may have these genes. But they do not always express, because nurture [...]
Source: Raph's Koster Website
Categories: Bloggers
07:15
06:49
In this weekend's exercise, explain how you would build a community for an online game on a limited budget.
My thoughts in the full article.
Source: Psychochild
Categories: Bloggers
06:39
I was dinking around on Wizard 101, when I thought it would be really cool to see if I could take Tara from Wizard 101, and put her in City of Villains. It’s supposed to let you make near any costume, right?
Well, turns out, first, CoV doesn’t do a great job of modeling children. Fine, [...]
Source: Tipa - West Karana
Categories: Bloggers
July 20, 2008
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Terror — if you’re a dragon. Nostalgia the Guild set up a face-to-face for Naggy and Vox with old Veeshan, and I don’t think Queen Vee will be too happy with her progeny.
We’ve been tracking Lord Nagafen all week to see that he remained up. And shockingly, the elder guilds with their twink brigades didn’t [...]
Source: Tipa - West Karana
Categories: Bloggers
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