Another liveblog…

Damion Schubert, Bioware Austin (and his blog)

My title is at least as vague as Raph’s. I thought I would tell you up front what I am talking about so if it is not what you think you can leave now.

Three mental models for MMO design, and I thought I would make those public and you can tell me if they are useful, because I have not actually researched them. I will also throw out stray thoughts on MMO design as they come up, they will seem random, because I am a random guy. And I will also discuss the history of cupholders.

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Here are the slides for my presentation today. For once, you should be able to get the gist of what I said without needing to read or hear the actual lecture alongside the slides. I suppose that makes this a “bad use of Powerpoint” — but I swear I didn’t just read the slides. 🙂

First up, there’s this fancy MHT file that Powerpoint exported. It seems to only work in IE, though. 🙁

If that doesn’t work for you, there’s also a PDF (3.8MB). But I notice a lot of the graphics are wonky looking, including all the backgrounds.

Lastly, here’s a page with every slide as images.

Astute readers will notice that I stole a comment from the estimable Dr. Bartle. 😉