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March 14, 2010
06:59
March 13, 2010
19:51
At TED 2010 Blaise Aguera y Arcas from Microsoft demoed live integration of video into the existing structure-from-motion dataset in Photosynth. Though his demo showed a video feed moving around a scene the same data could just as easily be turned around to find the precise position of the camera in real-time. That capability is a key [...]
Source: Joe Ludwig
Categories: Bloggers
08:30
06:17
Karen has been doing a stand up job going to many of the talks for GDC. If you want to read about some of the sessions being done, head over there. She’s already got three articles up there.
One other game I want to tell you all about is a game called AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! I remember seeing [...]
Source: Common Sense Gamer (Darren)
Categories: Bloggers
00:08
Saturday afternoon found Potshot and I running around with alts on Lightninghoof.
I had Grungur, my healing shaman on and he had his pally on, who was only a couple levels ahead of Grungur, and also spec’d healing.
Thinking we might get some good, fast exp, he re-spec’d to protection and we hit the dungeon finder as [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
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March 12, 2010
22:07
MyTribe is a brand new game that just launched on Facebook, and holy crap it’s gorgeous and fun. MyTribe is made by Big Fish Games, the makers of Faunasphere. I’m sharing this here, because it’s complex enough that it feels almost like a “next-gen” Facebook game that even traditional gamers would enjoy.
If you’re into “godding” [...]
Source: Cuppycake
Categories: Bloggers
18:41
In the middle of the economic downturn, people from the industry had to make a decision: should we go to GDC? To some, the answer was a clear “no”. GDC has gotten quite small…at least since I started going 2 or 3 years ago. I’m not sure if this trend will continue next year, but [...]
Source: Common Sense Gamer (Darren)
Categories: Bloggers
17:10
It’s the end of random week. It was a good one with a guest post on managing community expectations, thoughts on MMO biological conditioning, random raid poop and balls, and I even got to sneak in an article on food. I actually had trouble for the closing post. Should I do a puzzling haiku? How [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
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08:11
I have a confession that I’m a little embarrassed about. Yes, you guessed it, I’ve been playing WOW. I haven’t been spreading that around too much, because of the stigma associated with it. I imagine the next time someone yells at me to “Go back to WOW”, it might actually sting a [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
Categories: Bloggers
00:17
I got my snark out of the way. Before I continue, let’s rewind a little bit to the Volume 3, Book 1 Prologue. The Oath of the Rangers starts off with a journey to Rivendell, where I eventually met with Lord Elrond to discuss a letter sent by Lady Galadriel regarding Aragorn’s need for the [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
Categories: Bloggers
March 11, 2010
19:40
Here are the slides from my talk at the Social Gaming Summit at GDC 2010. It was a good crowd in a very large room.
Gdc 2010: Convergence of Flash Portals and Social GamingView more presentations...
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Source: Lost Garden - Danc
Categories: Bloggers
19:27
Hey all…
…currently at the Vivox booth, Brent is on Gamebreakr right now, so go check it out here.
I should be on at around 5:30pm-ish PST
D out
Source: Common Sense Gamer (Darren)
Categories: Bloggers
18:01
World of Tanks has released the American tank tree for their game.
The American tank tree illustrates quite clearly the US position on tank development, which were largely influenced by General McNair, that the US Army didn’t need anything better than the Sherman, which should be used for infantry support and which should leave the enemy [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
Categories: Bloggers
16:01
(I asked Dan Gray if he would want to touch on the subject of random developer updates. He was kind enough to oblige, and here is his great contribution to random week. –Ravious)
In the age of 140 character communication it’s becoming standard practice for developers to tease their audience with sporadic tidbits of information, be [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
Categories: Bloggers
15:20
The bulk of a community manager’s job, once the community is set up and running, is expectation management. When you invite people to ask questions, you create an expectation that you’ll answer them all, not cherry pick the easy ones. When you post five times a day, you create the expectation that you will continue [...]
Source: Sanya
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13:00
06:30
01:14
A question and a few notes from a closet Trekkie to any others who may be playing this game -
* If this is set 30 years after Nemesis, and 22 years after Romulus was destroyed, how is Spock narrating it when he was sent to a parallel universe shortly thereafter?
* While the ground fight [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
Categories: Bloggers
01:07
The network effect is one of those critically important, foundational concepts needed to discuss the success or failure of multiplayer games intelligently, one that gets more “what?” reactions than it should. I’m hoping people know it but perhaps not by that name; knowing it by name lets you tap a century of research and [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
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March 10, 2010
21:38
Chapter 1
(The protagonist, Me, runs in to the cave and meets with Radanir, the Ranger.)
Me: I am so glad I found you. Aragorn, your leader, has need of you in Rohan. You must go there at once.
Radanir: Of course, Aragorn’s will be done. However, there’s some orcs in this here cave. They are too close to the elf outpost. [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
Categories: Bloggers
16:03
Hail, hail, fire and snow,
call the angel, we will go,
far away, for to see,
friendly angel come to me
-Rhyme from the worst episode ever
There I was in another strange solar system checking on another Federation outpost.
There had been a distress signal. Something strange was happening on the surface. There was a request to beam down to [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
Categories: Bloggers
16:02
As soon as any MMO player hears the word random applied to the MMO genre, as it has been throughout random week, thoughts of the loot pinata spring to mind. Every time a little dirt weasel falls to the ground a right click tears that sucker open to reveal: a melted candle, a shiny red apple, a [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
Categories: Bloggers
12:11
09:22
Like last year, I’m headed off to GDC. I have my own conference pass this year (no more sleazy pass sharing!), so I’ll be hitting sessions all day Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. For some reason you can’t link directly to your conference schedule, but hey, I have a blog. Post session I’ll fill them in [...]
Source: JZigishness - Ben Zeigler
Categories: Bloggers
07:21
Seriously. Two podcast guest spots and both podcasts run long. Yeah, it's a coincidence.... ;)
Anyway, listen to me over at Polygamerous Podcast discuss some of the news of the past week and my thoughts on the industry, how to break in to the industry, etc.
http://www.polygamerous.com/2010/03/09/episode-15-poly-of-games-psycho-edition/
Unfortunately, the sound quality on my side isn't all [...]
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Source: Psychochild
Categories: Bloggers
07:10
Back to my 2010 predictions, and one in particular.
One of the following companies will announce their first/next project, and it won’t be an MMO (5 points):
Aventurine
Carbine Studios
Red5 Studios
Simutronics
Turbine
Only, when I first made that list, I had 38 Studios on it. It seemed logical. I had lumped them together with Red 5 and Carbine last year.
Then [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
Categories: Bloggers
06:30
March 9, 2010
17:00
What to do with all that ISK I have in my wallet?
A few weeks back I was sitting in EVE Online. Star Trek Online was down and I had had all of the WoW I could take for the day. So there I was in New Eden wondering what to do.
I started thinking about one [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
Categories: Bloggers
15:01
I love food. For anybody that knows me, I think everything can be analogized to food. Thankfully Ethic keeps me in check here, for without him this would probably be Kill Ten Rats and Grill. Well this is random week, and here is my one random topic thinly veiled as a gamer topic. Gamer food [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
Categories: Bloggers
08:52
04:13
While it’s safe to say I’m an avid LoTRO player, I’ve found myself at a loss for things to do lately, even after a major patch (which took me under 4 hours to complete all solo/group content). So to keep myself from fatal burnout, I decided to take advantage of the City of Heroes/Villains [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
Categories: Bloggers
March 8, 2010
21:07
The Flash Games Summit is current going on, which means lots of good juicy info for those who are into casual/social games. Freetoplay.biz has the full liveblog, but a few of the pros in the casual gaming industry got together to give some tips about what developers should know to make social games.
Some of the [...]
Source: Cuppycake
Categories: Bloggers
16:23
Welcome to rand() week at Kill Ten Rats unknowingly sponsored by Leala Turkey of Spouse Aggro fame. For those sane enough not to have scratched much of the surface of spreadsheet programs or number intensive programming, rand() is a random number generator. And this week, I will be talking about randomness, choosing random topics, and [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
Categories: Bloggers
15:29
I began researching netbooks–small laptops aimed mostly at Web browsing–several months ago. I do a fair bit of traveling, and while I love my current machine, lugging the 17″ beast through airports has never been what I would call a treat. Not to mention the fact that a large notebook is completely useless on a [...]
Source: Moorgard (Steve Danuser)
Categories: Bloggers
14:06
Just a heads up that I will be flying off to GDC tomorrow.
If you have anything you’d like to see covered, let me know. There will be plenty of video and audio taken…so keep an eye out over at VirginWorlds for coverage. We’ll probably be on Gamebreaker as well…so I’ll let you guys know when [...]
Source: Common Sense Gamer (Darren)
Categories: Bloggers
09:34
07:36
After having my host switch me to a new server, seems I'm back online. Hooray!
Just in time for the GDC, at least.
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Back online!
Post copyright Brian 'Psychochild' Green. Visit the post to participate in the comments:
Source: Psychochild
Categories: Bloggers
06:35
I asked my daughter a few weeks back whether I should work on saving up cash for one of the mammoth mounts that can carry two passengers or if I should concentrate instead on the Mekgineer’s Chopper, an engineer created motorcycle mount that can carry one passenger.
My daughter immediately said, “The motorcycle!”
As a father, I [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
Categories: Bloggers
00:51
Recently, I have been made the Facebook Games Examiner for the national edition of the Examiner. I’m basically just relaying the news in various Facebook games. If you have any interest in Facebook game news, please subscribe to my RSS feed over there and click and comment on some articles. I figure once a week I’ll [...]
Source: Cuppycake
Categories: Bloggers
March 7, 2010
20:28
The contest has come to life, we now have one entry! Sometimes a little bit of whining works.
The entry has been validated, accepted and has a good chance of winning even if somebody else enters. I don’t want to give it away, but I’ll put out this hint.
As good as this entry is though, it [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
Categories: Bloggers
19:28
The contest update is that there is no contest update, really.
There is no update really because nobody has entered yet. So there is NO competition currently to win a code for a WoW in-game pet.
And if there is only one entry, they will get the pet even if it is a variation on Leeroy with [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
Categories: Bloggers
10:05
I’ve decided that my current mission in World of Warcraft needs to be to get the Loremaster achievement. This is guaranteed to be difficult and tedious, but I think it will be fun. I’m such a lore buff in WoW, so this is the perfect title for me. I contemplated leveling an alt, but there [...]
Source: Cuppycake
Categories: Bloggers
07:07
06:29
A friend of mine has dolls that she treats as children. They each have personalities, wardrobes, adventures, etc. She posts about them on the assorted social networking sites. I sometimes find this odd until I remind myself that we are doing the exact same thing, probably for more hours per day, only [...]
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
Categories: Bloggers
March 6, 2010
21:49
… you gotta learn to play it right.
Major props to the guys who did that masterpiece.
Source: KillTenRats - Ethic
Categories: Bloggers
19:18
Tami Baribeau: Woohoo! Island Life just passed 200,000 monthly active users!!! YIPPIE! http://bit.ly/aQaE1E Considering that Island Life has been available for about 1 and a half months, that's pretty much a catch-all. How about releasing weekly numbers? Raph Koster: The...
Source: N3RFED - Cosmik
Categories: Bloggers
06:23
GDC has come once again. I'll be in San Francisco and would be happy to meet up with anyone. Just drop me an email at danc [at] lostgarden.com.
This year I'll be giving two talks, both during the...
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Source: Lost Garden - Danc
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