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On Immersion: Do Trees Fall in Virtual Forests when Nobody’s around?
In his post “Edelweiss“, Tesh discusses how details that may appear insignificant to the player, or merely background information, are key in making a player’s experience of a virtual world real. And I couldn’t agree more. Beyond the obvious (the … Continue reading
MUD’s Heritage to MMOs, a Short Sample
Readers who pay attention to commentators writing about MMO design or industry questions at large may be familiar with Raph Koster’s statement:
“MMOs have removed more features from MUD gameplay than they have added, when you look at the games in aggregate.” [...] Continue reading
Hats off to Vonya on Drenden US
I just read this story from Ego: Random Acts of Kindness.
It’s good to be reminded, every so often, that there are still many honourable and honest players in the game. Continue reading
Reader Question: Best Moments in WoW?
One of our regular readers would like to continue verifying how deep the often stark contrast between my favourite hardcore blogging antagonist Stop and me is running, and wrote us both asking to define our best moment in WoW Continue reading
Daostrasz on Tweaking your Graphics in WoW
Daostrasz has an excellent post out here for people not making full use of a good gfx card and plenty of RAM, explaining how you can improve the eye-candy value in the game. Continue reading
Offline game: Where am I?
As the title says – I mentioned I was traveling before, and I took pictures of the view from the office building I am learning to teach in: Continue reading
