February 2006
Raph Koster's Home Page | Making the AAA Title: Letters from the Trenches
Dan Arey gave a talk at GDC 2005 on developing AAA games, and interviewed several designers for it. The actual interview was quite long, and I skipped many of the questions... but here's the answers to the ones that I did respond to. You can comment here on the blog if you like.
November 2005
Habitat Chronicles
(via)"In 1985 we began work on what would become one of the world's first multi-person graphical virtual worlds, and arguably the first of what are now awkwardly called "Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games" (MMORPGs). Thus began a series of adventures in technology, business, and the online world which continue to this day. This site is where we tell our story: the things we learned, the mistakes we made, the people we met, a tale of human brilliance and folly and things you would never have imagined."
October 2005
Sete motivos para um professor criar um blog
(via)A intenção é trazer para cá algumas das idéiasque a gente vê perdidas pelo mundo — real ou virtual
A Digital Sailor’s Diary » Blog Archive » Do Themes Sell Games?
"Why is Water Bugs selling better than cosmo bots, Bricks of Atlantis selling better than Bricks of Camelot and Big Kahna Reef selling well?"
Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review
by 46 othersWith the introduction of new social software applications such as blogs, wikis, newsfeeds, social networks, and bookmarking tools (the subject of this paper), the claim that Shelley Powers makes in a Burningbird blog entry [1] seems apposite: "This is the user's web now, which means it's my web and I can make the rules." Reinvention is revolution – it brings us always back to beginnings.
Internet News Article | Reuters.co.uk | Blog subscribers seek out small universe of sites
(via)Just 60 sites are "hot," defined as attracting more than 5,000 subscriber links, Lanzone said.Sites that attract 1,000 or more subscriber links number only 437, according to AskJeeves' Bloglines, the most popular system among Web users for actively monitoring other sites.
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