Comments on: Diary of a Newbie, part 2 http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/03/diary_of_a_newb.html Always Fairly Unbalanced Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: AnferTuto http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/03/diary_of_a_newb.html/comment-page-1#comment-52907 AnferTuto Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:02:55 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2957#comment-52907 Hola faretaste mekodinosad Hola faretaste
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]]> By: m. tovar http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/03/diary_of_a_newb.html/comment-page-1#comment-52906 m. tovar Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:21:41 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2957#comment-52906 i think i need to clarify. when i mention the gray promises in the interface, i am not really addressing the subtext of the rating discussion although i grant you it has a place. i am saying that interface design is a conscious decision and that the possible trajectories and behaviors exist because they were not deleted. that is not a subtext-of-game. that is an intention. i also question the "non-violent" nature of the game. it is not openly violent in the sense of permitting users to blow away objects and players, that's true. but sims has its own hammer. i think i need to clarify.

when i mention the gray promises in the interface, i am not really addressing the subtext of the rating discussion although i grant you it has a place.

i am saying that interface design is a conscious decision and that the possible trajectories and behaviors exist because they were not deleted. that is not a subtext-of-game. that is an intention.

i also question the “non-violent” nature of the game. it is not openly violent in the sense of permitting users to blow away objects and players, that’s true. but sims has its own hammer.

]]> By: Banshee http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/03/diary_of_a_newb.html/comment-page-1#comment-52905 Banshee Sun, 07 Mar 2004 11:20:26 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2957#comment-52905 "if a user can do something while online, it is there because the interface engineering made such a thing possible. it is in light of this that i find the discussion of violence, sex, and other gray behaviors in sims-online so interesting. these gray promises are there because ea made them possible in the sims-online interface. no one has really spoken to that, and that is predictable." Well, I think people have spoken around this issue ... it is a subtext of the discussion about the game rating, for ex. "sims-online appears to have been designed by, and for, stereotypical boys." Interesting however that it is reported that something like 60-65% of users are women, probably due to the non-violent nature of the game as well as other things. If I had to guess, I would say that the project is more designed to solicit functionaity requirements for a future product ... but that is tricky because while there is quite a bit of overlap between offline and online sims players, there isn't 100% overlap. B “if a user can do something while online, it is there because the interface engineering made such a thing possible. it is in light of this that i find the discussion of violence, sex, and other gray behaviors in sims-online so interesting. these gray promises are there because ea made them possible in the sims-online interface. no one has really spoken to that, and that is predictable.”

Well, I think people have spoken around this issue … it is a subtext of the discussion about the game rating, for ex.

“sims-online appears to have been designed by, and for, stereotypical boys.”

Interesting however that it is reported that something like 60-65% of users are women, probably due to the non-violent nature of the game as well as other things. If I had to guess, I would say that the project is more designed to solicit functionaity requirements for a future product … but that is tricky because while there is quite a bit of overlap between offline and online sims players, there isn’t 100% overlap.

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