The dragons and me, well, we used to argue.
We had these fantastically frightening rows.
I tell you this to explain, not alarm you.
They wore fedoras and chomped old cigars,
And liked wearing ponchos on great horny toes.
But really, they loved most going too far.
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Project Horseshoe 2007’s report has been posted, and like last year, it’s full of game designy goodness. 🙂
I’m sitting here at home, sick with whatever nasty cold is going around again — three or four of us out of the office today in fact! — so I am not at DICE. In fact, I’ve been asleep most of the afternoon. But Rob “Xemu” Fermier is at DICE, and apparently awake even, and he’s been liveblogging the talks. Two in particular caught my eye.
One was the Blizzard talk, which really does reveal just how not like any other company in the industry Blizzard is, or really has ever been — hardly any publisher supervision, ever?
If you are hankering for some Shadow of Yserbius action, looks like innrevival might have your fix.
The goal of the project is to create a server architecture that is compatible with the ImagiNation Network client software that you may still have lying around somewhere, forgotten, on a stack of floppies or a CD-ROM. This goal is being pursued by reverse-engineering the client software to determine the network messaging protocol that was used. We have had great success with this process so far, and by watching this site regularly for updates you will be able to keep up with our further progress and see what we have already done.
Looks like you will need to run an original client within DOSBox, but they have shots of a bunch of working pieces already — Boogers, 3d Golf, the Clubhouse…
Gamasutra – GameTap Shuttering Myst Online: Uru Live
It lives, then it dies, then it lives again, then it dies again…
“The decision was a very difficult one and was made for business reasons…”
One wonders what the minimum sustainable population of paying users is for an MMO these days, and why the overhead seems to have gotten so high.
