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Zen of Design - Ubiq

An experienced industry veteran discusses game design, especially that of massively multiplayer games.

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September 23, 2008

16:31

It’s Like Being There, Only Without the Smell of Nerds

Blizzcon 2008 live and in HD on DirecTV.

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September 19, 2008

21:17

The Long Console Wars

A brief console wars history. Incidentally, we’re now nearing the 3 year milestone of this generation. How soon until the companies start talking about the next round? And do you consider Wii the winner if it has the best selling hardware, but isn’t selling games at the same pace? And even though PS3 is the clear loser [...]

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19:20

My Wife’s One-Line Rock Band 2 Review

“No one told me there would be Linkin’ Park.”

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19:19

The Psychology of “Free”

While at GDC, I heard a lot of people who were pitching free games that, well, aren’t. Most of them are free trials of games that hope to monetize quickly. You are only a free game if your evangelists say you are. Free play games depend on evangelism of the players (usually kids without [...]

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September 16, 2008

14:48

Writeups of the Endgame Talk

At ADGC yesterday, today and tomorrow. Preparing for AGDC and some hard time at work is what I choose my relative lack of posting on. Here’s a writeup of my talk. And another. And a third. Slides forthcoming. Overall, I think it went pretty well, especially considering there was danger of Ike knocking out my power before [...]

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September 13, 2008

20:54

Sometimes, my wife sends me wonderful things. Click ‘more’ to see one such thing. (Original source?)

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From Shild:

I should preface this: He's a fanatic. HRose is a fanatic about MMOG design. Even though he has no experience and zero rationale behind most of what he says. He's just blabbering to hear himself speak. He's got zero credentials for 99% of the statements he makes and tries to pass them off like his opinion matters. But really, he's just another forum lurker poking around for whatever attention he can get from devs. He's like that dev from the WH40K studio who posted here, except he hasn't gotten a 'break' yet. Fuck, I can't remember that guys name. He's like Grunk, except he somehow became a developer. Whatever, let's just call him Shortbus.