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Massively singleplayer: a real genre?

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

“Massively singleplayer” is an apparent oxymoron that’s been floating around for a while. Will Wright has on occasion half-jokingly called Spore a massively singleplayer game because of how it spreads content amongst users. Other people have used the term to mock MMOs that can be played entirely without interacting with other players.
But could massively singleplayer […]

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New job

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

This month I moved to the UK to work at NCsoft Europe, based in Brighton. I’ve joined their new internal development team, which is working on multiple unannounced games. I absolutely love the new job and the people who work at the company. Though to my surprise no one in the UK wears bowler hats and […]

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Or so says Activision CEO Bobby Kotick. So I guess that’s it for Guitar Hero as we know it, and that might not be a good thing. Is it possible to make a Guitar Hero style game featuring additional peripherals? Sure, why not. (Rock Band says hi.) But when the CEO says Guitar Hero isn’t […]

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Embedding graphs and tables into wikis

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Wikis are commonly used in game design, as it makes the documentation easier to use and share, and easier to break down into smaller more manageable chunks. But one of the things that wiki software sadly doesn’t do well are graphs and tables.
Perhaps some wiki software exists that handles tables properly, but MediaWiki definitely doesn’t, […]

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At last, I have completed LinkedIn!

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

It’s totally disappointing though. There isn’t even a cut scene.

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