Archive for the year 2004
One Song’s Poker Table
Infamous land baron, strip club/escort service operator, and virtual arsonist One Song (aka Mr. Fairplay) has finished his long awaited poker table — and the result is one of the most complexly scripted single objects in Second Life. We have seen it in operation at The Edge, and at the Red River Valley Saloon. Following [...]
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Infamous land baron, strip club/escort service operator, and virtual arsonist One Song (aka Mr. Fairplay) has finished his long awaited poker table — and the result is one of the most complexly scripted single objects in Second Life. We have seen it in operation at The Edge, and at the Red River Valley Saloon. Following [...]
Full StoryInterview with Phil Murdock of Empire Vendors
Snow and Phil In this interview Miravoir Psaltry talks to Phil Murdock, who with Snow Hare heads up the Empire Vendors Group. They turned sex toys and sex animations into an empire! Their story follows.
Full StoryDrama Comes to Simcast!
Well, as much as the Herald luvs drama, a nice fat scoop of it would have would have made it into these pages days ago if I hadn’t been all wrapped up in my rl gf who is visiting from some undisclosed central eurpoean company (hint, she’s an infamous game dev groupie!). Anyway… …no sooner [...]
Full StoryIn the Belly of the Beast
CMU Researcher Randy Pausch Academic Randy Pausch has provided a rare look into the workings of EA Corporation in a recent paper entitled “An Academic’s Field Guide to Electronic Arts“. The paper is based on Pausch’s residency at EA and is intended as a sympathetic portrait — designed specificially to help academic institutions to build [...]
Full StoryJeff Brown: We aren’t the Only Sweat Shop!
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown Just a few days ago, when we blogged the heartbreaking post from EA Spouse, we predicted that Jeff Brown would weigh in with some suitably unhelpful comments. And now he has! While the post from EA spouse has now received some 3000 comments (including many stories that [...]
Full StoryJeff Brown: We aren’t the Only Sweat Shop!
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown Just a few days ago, when we blogged the heartbreaking post from EA Spouse, we predicted that Jeff Brown would weigh in with some suitably unhelpful comments. And now he has! While the post from EA spouse has now received some 3000 comments (including many stories that [...]
Full Storyraganarok and cultural design
at terra nova, nick yee has written an interesting discussion about how cultural assumptions inform the design of in-game culture. he mentions the differences in ideas about how appearance and profession affect identity in western v non-western game. read it here.
Full Storyavatar beauty contest seeking models and other yummies
this little morsel is from Variety: Miss Digital World — An Avatar Beauty Contest Wired News has a story about a beauty contest searching for the best looking female digital avatar.
Full Storymore stuff you can do with terms of service (TOS) agreements
i dunno how many of you guys have bothered to follow the TOS thrashes that show up here now and then. for those of you who do not follow them — the points debated can concern the use of TOS as holy writ v the use of TOS docs as really fine personal information reapers.
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