Come for the games, stay for the drama.
*kisses ground* I actually was starting another blog in case this one didn’t come back. I will probably still find another host…. I’m on Facebook now, courtesy of my sister. Look me up, add me to your friend’s list. I’m also in the LinkedIn professional network so… if you need to know my real name, … Read more
… but then again, maybe not.
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
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
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