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Ideas, mechanics and pointless quibbling. In a perfect world, we’d all be game designers.

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Actually, that’s interview. Singular. Not plural. Now go to the corner.

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Glorified chat rooms with elaborate hamster wheel mechanics. No wonder we’re hooked.

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The Chauvinistic Virtual World
Tuesday, 1 Jul, 2008 – 11:01 | 25 Comments
The Chauvinistic Virtual World

It’s hard to try and delve into a subject as controversial as chauvinism or sexism without pissing a lot of people off almost immediately. I guess a good place to start is why I would …

Gandalf Tanked a Balrog
Thursday, 5 Jun, 2008 – 16:25 | 16 Comments
Gandalf Tanked a Balrog

While in the recent months I’ve expressed my dissatisfaction with the possibility of yet another Medieval/Fantasy sort of MMO, I’m also a believer if you do something, you should do it right. Today’s discussion is …

Your Ideal MMO: Classes & Characters
Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 – 13:25 | 20 Comments
Your Ideal MMO: Classes & Characters

Designing a game, much less a MMO, is no easy task. Developing a game of such magnitude is not a small endeavor. So, while I continue to mull over the other complications of designing such …

The Morality of MMO Development
Monday, 28 Apr, 2008 – 13:39 | 13 Comments
The Morality of MMO Development

It’s easy to get caught up in our passion for escapism and complex massive virtual worlds. Our denizens whisper things like “dynamic content” and “balanced combat systems” with fervor in an attempt to maximize our …

A Letter to Curt Schilling and 38 Studios
Thursday, 24 Apr, 2008 – 8:43 | 26 Comments
A Letter to Curt Schilling and 38 Studios

A faint ray of hope in an otherwise darkening genre of gaming.

I Blog! Hire me to make a MMO!
Friday, 28 Mar, 2008 – 12:31 | 7 Comments
I Blog! Hire me to make a MMO!

With the recent influx of writers and bloggers (are those the same thing?) talking about upcoming games such as Warhammer Online and Age of Conan, I’ve seen quite a few comments regarding people having “good …