Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Could this be the first seed of the Metaverse? Sun has given their Project Darkstar to the open source community. Project Darkstar is a generic backend that can support any sort of game or other collaborative activity transparently allocating servers and managing data so that if your game is meant for 5 players or 5,000, … Read more
From Raph Koster’s notes on GDC… a stunning insight into the innovation WoW brought to the MMO realm… given the chance, players only group less than a third of their playtime and for the vast bulk of their playtime, like playing solo, but still chatting and being part of the community. This is why I … Read more
I was a little shocked to see, while I was running around the Karanas this morning working on my DikuMUD version, how much it had changed. Blood red skies? Creepy looking treants? What’s going on? I took a screenie of the druid ring in North Karana to use as my new header.
EQ and its related games (pretty much every modern MMO) have long been dismissed as nothing but “DikuMUDs with a graphical interface slapped on top of them”. I’ve been playing with the DikuMUD code over the last few days to get a feel for world building and to add a feature (what I call “rally … Read more
THIS TURNED OUT TO BE A JOKE. Sorry for falling for it. It really did sound to good to be true. — Take this with a generous helping of salt. Someone was claiming they had found a feature list for EQ2: Rise of Kunark, and it included these things: Beast lords New look for Iksar … Read more