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More Promises Promises Promises Promises Promises….
Following are some more promises and declarations of the urgency of introducing custom content, and in general “putting as much creativity as possible in the player’s hands.” Indeed, there were even plans to allow custom content to be pulled into the game through the workbench (e.g. someone could skill at your place and get some [...]
Full StoryEvolve: The Game Developer’s Conference
Hey, thanks to our reporter Atlantis, for posting this report from the Gave Dev Conference in San Jose. There are also blog entries listed on Terra Nova, Including Mia Consalvo (memorycard.blogs.com), Ian Bogost (www.watercoolergames.org), Gonzalo Frasca (www.ludology.org), David Thomas (www.buzzcut.com); Jurie Horneman (www.intelligent-artifice.com/2004/03/live_from_gdc_2.html) and GameDevNet (www.gamedev.net/columns/events/gdc2004). –Uri
Full StoryA Free Gamer’s Manifesto
by Elias Artista A specter is haunting the world of online roleplay gaming. That specter is the free gamer – she is the rogue gamer that rejects the narrow thoughtless rules of play imposed upon her by the Corporate Monoliths that claim to own the games. She collaborates with her friends to create her own [...]
Full StoryAlphaville is *not* big in Japan
Big in Japan-alright, pay! Then I’ll sleep by your side Things are easy when you’re big in Japan–Alphaville, “Big in Japan” Well, for weeks we’ve been told that the Japanese players would be here soon. And a week or so ago the game opened to the Japanese market with its Japanese language chat interface. The [...]
Full StoryEA’s Jeff Brown Speaks Out!: Sex in TSO is impossible!
Jeff Brown, infamous smack talker, cheetah deleter, midlife crisis poster boy, and EA’s Director of Corporate Communications has circulated a press release to a number of media outlets (including CNN and Tech TV). In it he argues that cybersex in TSO is impossible and that simoleans have no real world financial value (hence cyber-prostitution is [...]
Full StoryInterview with the Anti-President: Mr. President Bradley
In this interview, Mr. President Bradley tells us why he is opposed to Mr-President and the Alphaville Government, and charges that it is based on an illusory utopian vision for tso and that it (particularly former CIA Director Fans) is hypocritical and prone to break its own rules. He is equally critical of opposition candidate [...]
Full StoryDiscussion: on the Ethics of Pizza-bot Simoleans etc
This is a topic for me and Coco to argue about stuff without derailing every other topic in the blog. Here are some of the points at issue. 1) Is there a difference between being violating the TOS and violating the rules?2) If yes, is running your own Pizza Bot against The Rules?3) Either way, [...]
Full Story2 & 1/2 Months later ESRB responds to J: Get Lost!
Some time ago our contributor J published an Op/Ed piece arguing that the ESRB rating system for MMORPGs was broken. This was part of a research project that he was doing on the ESRB Rating system. As the comments following that essay show, most readers found his analysis thoughtful and careful. When he was doing [...]
Full StoryDiary of a Newbie #5: wallswallswallswalls…
By Montserrat Tovar one day i said to uri: i want to make a house. i want to do that. so uri took me to a lot in another city and said: here. build a house. i said: uri, help me. he said no and then sat down to watch action movies in front of [...]
Full StoryProduct Review: GIR: Nyk’s new Pizza Bot!
By Ian TSO’s best 3rd party program designer, Nyk has just released one of his greatest inventions……GIR (which is in honor of Invader Zim’s robot Gir, and stands for Great Innovative Robot)…The new invention automates everything for you. With a decent machine you can make up to 35,000-45,000 per hour. It autogreens; puts your sim [...]
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