I actually did this a while ago, but finally posted it up somewhere.
November from Raph Koster on Vimeo.
The Sunday Video: November
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Aug 172008
Aug 152008
Thanks to Ben Medler, who supplied an audio recording, I was able to concoct a video that shows the slides and videos I showed in synch with the audio. It’s a little over an hour long.
As usual, there were some places I misspoke (that is what happens when you don’t use notes at all!) so I superimposed errata directly on the video as captions. 🙂
New Star Wars MMO!
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Aug 142008
No, not KOTOR. McDonald’s, the world I predicted at Sandbox would be bigger than WoW. 🙂
Today McDonald’s announced that the movie would be featured in its physical Happy Meals, which feature special codes to unlock content in the virtual world. It seemed inevitable that the physical Happy Meal promotions would get virtual tie-ins, and, just as in the real world, you’ll find Star Wars characters in your virtual Happy Meal for a limited time only.
Through September 10, users can play in a new space-themed area, complete a Jedi quest with Yoda, and unlock six exclusive Jedi characters with codes from the meal. It looks like the space station and Republic gunship haven’t arrived yet, though.
IndieCade’s take on my Sandbox/Web3d talk
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Aug 122008
“In the Sandbox with Raph Koster” is IndieCade’s take on the talk. It’s interesting to see it getting a different slant from Ben Medler’s — part of what happens when you deliberately give a diffuse talk, I suppose! 🙂
Gartner says VWs in Trough
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Aug 112008
Virtual Worlds News points to the latest Gartner report, which shows virtual worlds (primarily from an enterprise adoption point of view, maybe?) as being on the trough of disillusionment, but going mainstream in 2 to 5 years or so.
I wonder where Gartner would put the gaming worlds?
