Archive for March, 2004
Richardson wins primary
Ashley Richardson and her running mate Loxee have won the primary election for President of The Alphaville Government, and will face Mr-President in an April 10 general election. Final election tally was 223 votes for Richardson/Loxee and 138 votes for their opponents Seth Galloway and Marcus Forlourne. Commentators have suggested that Galloway was still a [...]
Full StoryWired News Picks up Alphaville Elections
As election fever grips Alphaville, the race for the Presidency of the Alphaville Government has caught the attention of greater cyberspace and the story has been picked up by Wired News. The wider interest in the election is not surprising, given the questions that are raised. For example, to what extent is an election like [...]
Full StoryPat the Rat: Beyond the Valley of the Webcams
Just the other day I invited Uri to join me in a webcam session, and to my great surprise he was utterly unfamiliar with this essential piece of technology. Where has this boy been? Well despite missing out on viewing the splendor of my unsurpassed androgynous hottiness, he’s also been missing out on The Thing [...]
Full StoryMeet the Candidates #5: Seth Galloway for President
Seth Galloway and his running mate Marcus Forlourne will meet Ashley Richardson and Loxee in the second round of primary elections on this Saturday, March 13. We understand that the election will again take place on the Alphaville Government web site ? anyone with an avatar in alphaville may vote. There are also plans to [...]
Full StoryDiary of a Newbie #3: the bleakness of crowds
by Montserrat Tovar sometimes i wonder why i am writing this. i say this because it seems like there is not much to say about sims: the play of simming becomes a predictable sequence: eat, sleep, skill, bathroom. sometimes you shop for something to wear and there is nothing interesting to buy. smeared throughout this [...]
Full StoryBing Gordon on MMORPG Growth Prospects
Judging from EA’s lack of support for TSO, one might get the impression that EA has given up on MMORPGs. However in a recent talk at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Vegas, EA’s Chief Creative Officer Bing Gordon has argued that multiplayer games (customizable like the sims) will be key to winning over future generations of [...]
Full StoryInterview with Mick, from Online Game Bucks
In The Alphaville Herald we have met some small currency dealers and some fairly large ones (six figures), but by comparison Online Game Bucks is just huge. Having started exclusively as Simolean dealers, they now sell currency in nine games, and they currently have 32 employees. By some outside estimates their annual sales revenues are [...]
Full StorySecrets of the Top Props, part 1: Wild Nights
In this new feature, our intrepid reporter Snoopy Magoofee checks out the top ranked properties armed with questions about what it takes to have a top prop ? the strategies employed and the problems encountered. We begin by interviewing the sim Wild Nights, who owns the Wild Nights store in Alphaville. If you are a [...]
Full StoryDiary of a Newbie, part 2
by m.tovar in thinking about my infancy as a sim, it has been hard for me to express myself about it, even to myself. i go to the sims place and i see so many things. it is hard to know what to write down first. right now i am most tempted to use the [...]
Full StorySeth Galloway and Ashley Richardson advance
The first round of the Alphaville Government Primaries are now complete, and in a very close election, Ashley Richardson and Seth Galloway have advanced to the second round of the primaries. Next Friday, March 12 the two candidates will debate. On Saturday March 13 they will face each other in a the second round of [...]
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