I had considered calling this article “everyone has buttons” and you will soon see why. Read on… You might recognize the desert that this particular troll is standing in – it is the post apocalyptic Arizona desert, about 150 years from the current date. Now why, you might ask yourself, does a troll standing in…
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Walking on Egg Shells
Columbus (upon landing on a beach somewhere in what is now Cuba): I would like to take a few of you guys back with me to prove I discovered you. Taino Indian: What do you mean you discovered us? We discovered you. Columbus: Oh? How’s that? Taino Indian: We discovered you on the beach here…
Asking for more
Earlier in the year, an article appeared in Game Developer’s Magazine entitled Staying Power: Rethinking Feedback to Keep Players in the Game by Bruce Phillips, Microsoft Game Studios research expert. The article was reprinted on Gamastura and is available here. The article was primarily directed at single player and multiplayer games, but author Bruce Phillips…
Bullet Points or Depth?
Bullet points or depth The words “casual gamer” are thrown around so much in the mmo community that it has become one of those phrases like “polished game.” In fact, when Scott Hartsman was a guest on the No Prisoners No Mercy show not long ago, he talked about games being “accessible” – and there…
The Virtual Tourist
It has been one month since Aion Online has hit the shelves and about the same for Champions Online. This is right about the time where a gamers mind turns to “virtual tourism” – the end of the first free month. The following was in the recent release of the “October Community Address” from…
In the oven too long?
Late last night Fran tried out the character creation process for Champions online. – it is so versatile that it truly is a “mini-game” all by itself. As we sat there, engrossed in the process as a burgeoning superhero formed before our very eyes the cookies in the nearby oven went entirely forgotten. Well not…