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Designing reward structures is hard 27 Aug 2013 | 02:46 am
Did you know that President Obama has personally stopped 57 terrorist attacks? I made that number up. Maybe it's zero. Or ten thousand. And that's precisely the problem: it's really hard to reward pre...
I don't care what you're doing in your MMO 16 Aug 2013 | 04:48 am
What you are doing is the same as what everyone else has done. You are going to do the same content, in possibly slightly different order, as every single other person. You will run the same places, p...
Jedi are assholes 15 Aug 2013 | 02:36 am
It's a common sentiment among those not sensitive to the Force that Jedi are arrogant and distant. I tended to regard these sentiments as stupid. Of course they're arrogant relative to the weak and u...
All the Adventure with half the Violence 14 Aug 2013 | 12:56 am
I'm not sure what magical creature to blame for this, but somehow this post, fully-written, sat as a draft, unpublished (redundancy ensures that you have enough). We've previously established that I ...
Cave "Mengele" Johnson 12 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
The other day I wrote about how we as players may casually commit what would in real life be genocide, war crimes, or some other varied form of evil. This led me back to an idea that has been floating...
Casual evil in video games 31 Jul 2013 | 11:08 pm
We all know that we can do bad things in games. I'm not referring to people an asshole on xbox live or something like that, but to the actual gameplay. It's not even the obvious stuff that bugs me. Ye...
Interpreting something from nothing is miscommunication 30 Jul 2013 | 12:14 am
This article from Slate caught my attention: What the ... Why everyone and your mother started using ellipses ... everywhere. First off, I'm not a fan of over-ellipsification. This is mostly because ...
Interface is destiny 25 Jul 2013 | 06:27 pm
How we interact with information will influence what we do with it. For these purposes, interface refers to both the display of information, the ability to interact with it, and how we input commands....
I'm a terrible MMO blogger 22 Jul 2013 | 08:12 pm
I don't think it's a leap to say that if you're going to write well about a game or genre you should play or have played that game or genre. Recent experience is important too. Which all adds up to me...
Everyone is, has, or will 13 Jul 2013 | 08:23 am
Two friends from college got married today. At the reception I met a friend I'd not seen in person since college, a nerd friend of his, and the nerd college roommate of one of my friends. We nerded it...
