The latest issue of the Daedalus Project is out. Key statistical findings this time:
Trying to break it up again, with a song instead of a poem.
I've been working on a CD called Longitude off and on for about four years. I get the urge to polish it up every once in a while, but mostly I let it sit. At this point, it's mostly mixing, EQ'ing, and mastering that is left to be done. This is, I think, the first song I have posted off of that CD. It's representative of the sort of instrumentation that is on Longitude, which is written for full band, rather than just as an acoustic album (this song features not one but two electric guitar parts, plus bass,drums, and backing vocals!). Continue reading »
Matt runs Iron Realms. They do Achaea, among other things. He’s also a contentious coot. 😉 Should be fun! Over here.
There’s an exhaustively researched article over at the Harvard Business Review on this topic.
Among the tidbits they drop are some Second Life stats:
In thinking about the UO resource system in recent posts (1, 2, 3), I also got to thinking about other things that we either wanted to or tried to get the NPCs to do. Today, NPCs have gradually evolved more and more towards being quest dispensers. Originally, we wanted NPCs that would give the illusion of life.
But there were a few bumps on the road, and today NPCs in all the games pretty much suck.
