The Game Design section
It has taken me almost a year, but the Game Design section of the site has seen truly massive revisions.
Among other things, I have managed to find several presentations which were never on the site:
- “Reinventing MMOs,” which is more or less a high-level explanation and justification of the Metaplace technology stack.
- “High Windows,” the long-lost Worlds in Motion keynote that is probably my most controversial talk ever.
- “SciFi MMPs,” done jointly with Chris Klug, that’s the closest thing to a postmortem of Star Wars Galaxies as you are likely to find
- My Games for Change closing address, now fully transcribed.
In addition, there are now videos and audio attached to many of the existing presentations; if they were posted for free on GDCVault or elsewhere, I have embeded the video or audio there in the page alongside the slides. Most slides have been re-exported for higher quality.
It’s not all in presentations, either. I went through the blog archives and found a host of interviews and panels and whatnot that had never been archived, including many on Metaplace and SWG and MMOs in general, and also the recent panel I moderated at GDCNext on indie grassroots marketing. So now that page is also much better; I think there may have been as many as a dozen new additions, actually. There are even a couple of essays that had never been gathered up on the site, such as the one I did for Penny Arcade where they asked me to design a construction MMO.
All in all, it was a massive endeavor. I hope that designers, scholars, and players each might find something interesting or useful in there. To be honest, I was kind of shocked by the sheer volume of it all.
Still missing: an actual ludography. I’ll get around to that at some point. In the meantime, it’s all available from the menu up top.
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RT @raphkoster: I spent a year doing MASSIVE updates to my site. Long lost talks, videos, etc all found here now: http://t.co/jtldtAesCh
@raphkoster Ooh! Lots of cool new content 🙂 I’d wondered if I’d ever get to read the High Windows thing, after hearing about it years ago.
RT @raphkoster: I spent a year doing MASSIVE updates to my site. Long lost talks, videos, etc all found here now: http://t.co/jtldtAesCh
RT @raphkoster: I spent a year doing MASSIVE updates to my site. Long lost talks, videos, etc all found here now: http://t.co/jtldtAesCh
RT @raphkoster: I spent a year doing MASSIVE updates to my site. Long lost talks, videos, etc all found here now: http://t.co/jtldtAesCh
RT @raphkoster: I spent a year doing MASSIVE updates to my site. Long lost talks, videos, etc all found here now: http://t.co/jtldtAesCh
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