A Kickstarter project to produce "Elite:Dangerous". I wish I was more excited about this ( Read more... )

I finished the Bartle book. There's a lot of thought-provoking stuff.

Bartle's two main flogging points:
* Players in virtual worlds are going through a process of identity development.
* Virtual world designers need to understand why decisions were made a certain way in other virtual worlds, so that they don't blindly copy something that ( Read more... )

I am working my way through "Designing Virtual Worlds". It's just a bit dated (2002) but he's talking at a high-enough level that the content is still very relevant.

From chapter 3, I found this explanation of 'development' tracks of players rather thought-provoking:


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I noticed that Steam was downloading another update for Civ 5. It looks like they've attempted to fiddle with a lot of game balance issues again ( Read more... )

XKCD describes the typical college web site. How about Gustavus?

Items on Front PageCampus photo slideshow: yes ( Read more... )

What is Minnebar? Picture a SF con with less-experienced panel moderators and volunteer-driven programming. The geeks attending are mostly computer science and design professionals (and thus primarily male ( Read more... )