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So, Bioware hates groups, too?

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JoBildo reposted a summary of a talk given by Gordon Watson, co-director of Bioware, at GDC Austin. Work blocks Gamasutra, so I couldn’t get this from the source. Watson’s talk was about the lessons learned from the World of Warcraft. There’s no denying WoW is popular, the most popular Western MMORPG ever made. They did … Read more

Playing around with autotrace in Linux

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I’ve been playing around with the Linux ‘autotrace’ command — yesterday’s screenshot was a composite of a centerline and blobular tracing of an in-game screenshot…. Thought today I would try it out on some real pictures. (I cheated a little — I composited the two tracings in Photoshop on Windows. Does that make me evil?) … Read more

How I wounded grouping and starved communities.

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One afternoon, after being frustrated by looking for a good group several hours without any luck, I made a desperate wish that the MMO devs would wise up and let all classes solo for XP so nobody would ever need a group, ever again. Some genie dev somewhere pricked up his (or her) ears and said, … Read more

Finally, a real use for the Playstation 3

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I’m not here to bash the PS3. Just that I cannot find even one game on the system that I want to play. It’s all the shooters and sports games, just like the Xbox 360 (another console that doesn’t seem to want to publish games for the non-twitch crowd). Microsoft and Sony fight over the … Read more

That End-of-Summer kind of lazy

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I have (as I look) three half-written articles waiting to be finished… it’s been a busy week, and I just haven’t been able to finish anything. And so… Wish I could have gone to Penny Arcade’s PAX this past weekend… sounds like a blast to just be around gamers and… play games and stuff. Trade … Read more