I grew up in one of those New England towns
that called its river a beach.
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The Sunday Poem: Greenfield
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Jun 042006
UO’s resource system
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Jun 032006
The UO Resource System series:
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Recently, some readers asked for posts that were more game-design centered. Since there was talk recently of the virtual ecological modeling that a Second Life user created, I thought I might talk a little bit about how the original resource system in Ultima Online worked. It’s more virtual world design than game design, but it has a lot of implications for game systems. Pretty much everything I am writing here has been published before in one place or another, but a lot of the old UO interviews and articles are not on the Internet, so it’s all been lost, and I imagine folks newer to the whole virtual world thing may never have heard about it.
Imagining the Internet
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Jun 022006
I swear, this is probably the last Metaverse Summit post, at least until they hold another summit.
Janna Anderson of Elon University and the Pew Internet Project’s “Imagining the Internet” project has posted up audio and video of interviews done while at the Summit. The questions posed included:
- What would you ask policymakers to do to ensure a positive future for networked technologies?
- What is your most fervent hope for the future of networked technologies?
- What is your greatest fear for the future of networked technologies?
- During the next decade, what technology will have the greatest impact on our everyday lives?
- Looking more than 10 years in the future, what technological development will have the greatest impact on society?
Monthly Report, May-June 2006
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Jun 012006
I missed doing a report last month — I don’t remember why. I hope that means you all pined for the monthly dose of goofy search terms!
It looks like the torrid growth of the site has slowed down somewhat. Phew, I was getting worried there for a bit. Here’s a bit of a graph showing how it’s going:
IGDA San Diego site relaunched
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Jun 012006
Looks like the San Diego chapter of the IGDA is getting going again!
