Thanks to the kind offices of the folks at PARC!
I recommend the video, because you can see the slides, and there are some diagrams and stuff on those that I reference.
Errata: it’s actually 51% of the bracket 36-50. (That will make sense if you listen to the whole thing). And it’s Higinbotham with one G.
At some point, I’ll transcribe this and make it a page on the site…
I am starting to think that I should just set up a feed so that all of Danc’s posts on Lost Garden show up here in-line. The latest: The Blind Men and the Elephant: Thoughts on an integrative framework for understanding games basically concludes that we should be using altruism as our core framework for why we make games.
Just yesterday I answered one of a set of interview questions this way:
You’re a self-described “idealist on a virtual crusade.” What, exactly, does this mean? Are you (forgive the wacky pun) questing for the phattest lewt of MMORPG design? What’s the ultimate goal of this crusade?
It really just means that I have high hopes for what online worlds can be and do for people. Over the last decade and more, I’ve seen them make such big differences in people’s lives that I’m a true believer in their power to not only be incredibly entertaining, but also do more: teach people, bring people together, and empower them.
Sometimes people think that means that I’m not interested in the game side of things, but that’s not it at all… I happen to believe much the same of games in general.
Recently there has been a rash of posts here about SWG and the NGE, and wishing for the pre-CU version of the game, and so on.
I understand and appreciate that some players want changes. I get your passion. I even feel proud and humbled at the same time that you show so much enthusiasm for work that I was involved in.
This is not the right place for those posts. This is my personal website. You may have noticed that I don’t put up SOE press releases either. It is easy enough to deduce the reasons why this is so. They are all fairly obvious reasons: professionalism, contractual obligations, blogging policies, company codes of conduct, and so on.
Comments will be locked on this thread, because this isn’t really up for discussion; it’s just how it is. If you like the blog, and enjoy the interactions, you need to realize that these are the parameters under which I write, and I hold myself to strict standards on these things.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled occasional acoustic music and sunday poems. Film at 11.
Gamasutra -Soapbox – “Designing an MMORPG Feedback Rating System” is an article by David Edery on how we should make use of reputations systems in MMOs.
Dude, I’ve tried…! It’s a wonderful excuse to dump some accumulated knowledge on you.
Here’s some of the things that people don’t tend to realize in working in this space.
I actually heard about this a while ago, but now that it’s on their website, I guess I can post about it.
The Syndicate® is a long-standing guild — they just celebrated their 10th anniversary (I got a birthday card, in fact).
