1998–2007
1,480 posts
2007 629
December 2007
- Year-end roundup
- ZT Online
- The Sunday Song: Market
- The Death of High Fidelity in Games?
- I’ve given half of these
- You are all cheaters!
- Gamasutra’s Top 5 Most Significant Moments In MMOs
- DeRMTingWoW
- The Sunday Poem: Let Us Just Be
- Digging more into RMT
- If you can tear yourself away from Rock Band…
- Does trading suck?
- f13.net forums – Your Top 10 MMOs
- Linkrealms
- Virtual Worlds Management Industry Forecast 2008
- What is cheating?
- Speaking of pointless graphics arms races
- Awesome
- Live Gamer: an official RMT platform
- The Sunday Poem: Diminuendo
- Metaplace article in PC Gamer
- Webs.com: a case study of “design for everywhere”
- The march of commodification
- Curse you, red ring of death!
- The Economist on virtual worlds
- SceneCaster hits a milestone
- The Sunday Poem: I Saw and Heard
- MIT Fan Labor panel audio and video
- Monopoly, WW2 hero
- Good article on AWOMO
- Passage, the latest art game hit
- Some links that caught my eye today
- ActionTab.com is brilliant
- GDC Prime 2007: What We Are Missing
- Speaking at GDC Prime 2007
- A virtual property precedent established
- Another phone MMO
- CNet on the Blizz/Act thing
- Sony invests in Gaia and virtual movie theaters
- The Sunday Poem: Puzzle Poetry
- Jon Blow’s Design Reboot
- Vivendi buys Activision to create Activision Blizzard
- Answer this post
- Metaplace in PC Gamer
November 2007
- Fascinating ARG Stats
- Speaking at GDC’s Worlds in Motion Summit
- Player sues player over user-created content, wins (sorta)
- Brookstone opens a virtual storefront
- Chuck is saved!
- Game Developers Choice Awards
- The Sunday Song: November
- Reading backlog: the comics
- A better version of October
- The Romantics sue over Guitar Hero 3
- 3 1/2 hours playing Rock Band
- Cyworld going 3d?
- The Sunday Poem: Slide
- Three Hundred :: Three Hundred Mechanics
- Futures of Entertainment 2: Fan Labor
- MIT’s Futures of Entertainment 2: Mobile Media
- Academic job available in Germany
- Next Gen/EDGE interview
- Salsipuedes: leave if you can
- Areae is hiring again!
- MDA is a modem
- Metaplace update
- The definition of misery
- Numb3rs on MMO-ARGs
- The Sunday Song: October
- Website downtime
- Facebook virtual worlds
- The Road to Ensenada
- World Fantasy Awards Winners
- Chen: tech changes, people don’t
- The Sunday Poem: Why Wulfric Lived to 90
- Typical game dev teams
- Using scripting languages
- Gemini’s eXplo platform: more mobile worlds coming
- Video games can affect cortisol levels
- ActiveWorlds embeds on Facebook
October 2007
- Twinity mapped at Metaversed
- Latest SL lawsuits
- The Sunday Song: Up Near Witch Creek
- The smoke does help some things
- Video Game Venture Capital blog launches
- Are we mainstreaming?
- Finally a use for Twitter
- Back home
- Ho-hum in Anaheim
- Tracking the fire
- How it’s gone
- Evacuation status
- We have evacuated
- We’ve packed our car
- The Sunday Poem: Davey Flower Becomes a Pterodactyl
- Fires
- Gamasutra: Defining Games: Raph Koster’s Game Grammar
- Online is more intense
- GeekyCoder reviews Novoking
- Thom Robertson prototypes Drywall: The Game
- Monday Mailbag: constructive fallout
- The Sunday Poem: Goety
- Metaplace Forums
- Upcoming Edge interview
- VWFall: Visionary Panel
- The better EULA
- The MMO Gamer Metaplace interview
- Interoperability
- I design a game for Penny Arcade
- Scientist creates life, patents it
- Multiverse interoperates with Google Earth
- Charlie Stross’ HALTING STATE
- Penny Arcade guest column on VATSIM
- The Sunday Poem: Life Before Light
- Linden Lab settles Bragg lawsuit
- More academics should try being practitioners
- Virtual Worlds Fall registration ending
- Virtual Worlds News Interview
- Movable Life: Client-agnostic Second Life
- Speaking at Virtual Worlds Forum Europe
- Banned Books Week
- Categories of virtual world
- Mini Friday — Sulake’s phone VW
- Uworld
- The Sunday Poem: Pondering a Duck
September 2007
- SF REVIEWS.NET: Halting State / Charles Stross
- More on Meet-Me
- CEDEC 07: Coverage of my talk
- AGDC 07: WarCry interview
- Google finally makes its move?
- The Sunday Poem: The Road to Whimsy
- In Japan!
- Off to Japan!
- Club Marian launches
- A perfect storm
- Metaplace!
- A big day: Metaplace
- Monday Mailbag: a neat graph, producers, UO, UO…
- The Sunday Poem: 48
- Cross-learning with Habbo and WoW…
- Buying one-shotting
- Another stupid meme
- Video games train new miners in Peru | CNET News.com
- AGDC07: the F13.net interview
- GamerDad needs help
- Jon Blow’s Braid on XBLA
- The price of fame?
- Hartsman on communities
- Wing Commander CIC – John Watson Memorial
- American Bar Assc. forms virtual worlds committee
- The Sunday Song: Carry The Message
- AGDC07: overall takes
- Blind spots
- AGDC07: Sulka Haro’s Habbo keynote slides available
- Madeleine L’Engle, RIP
- AGDC07: What Are the Biggest Online Opportunities?
- AGDC07: audio of Designing for Everywhere
- AGDC07: Sulka Haro keynote on Habbo Hotel
- AGDC07: Startup Lessons from Recent Online Games
- AGDC07: The Zen of Online Game Design
- AGDC07: Emerging Legal Issues in Online Games
- AGDC07: Designing for Everywhere
- AGDC: coverage of “Designing for Everywhere”
- Off to Austin!
- Media Machines lands a pile of funding
- Pondering Studiocom
- A game writer won the Campbell
- The Sunday Song Lyric: Number 43
August 2007
- Auto Assault RIP
- Project Darkstar is open sourced now
- The Aberration Bandwagon
- How much does the world matter?
- novoKing, another Chinese virtual world
- The lie detector game?
- Speaking at CEDEC in Japan
- When Worlds Collide audio & video
- UO Reborn… again
- How to pronounce HiPiHi
- The Sunday Poem: BASIC
- GigaOM goes to HiPiHi
- Austin Game Developers Conference schedule
- Anarchy on-line
- And more State of Play coverage
- Perpetual Mario Machine
- Metaversed looks at vSide
- More from State of Play
- Conduit lands funding [updated]
- State of Play
- A few links of interest
- Applying game design to web apps
- Reversing asymmetrical games
- Why Have Gold Anyway?
- The Sunday Song: She Walked (acoustic version)
- Unype
- War of the Worlds
- Independent User-Creation Podcast Now Live
- MyePets kills puppies
- How to donate for Peru earthquake victims
- The decline of the gaming magazine
- Online games > online video > social networking
- MyePets – yet another toy-based world
- Casual Connect session materials posted
- The earthquake in Peru
- Kongregate talks about alternate approaches
- Archlord goes free
- AWOMO goes beta
- VastPark
- What PS3 Home is supposed to evolve into
- vSide: Music Virtual World
- The first mirror world?
- Never trust the client
- Game companies making movies
- World Fantasy Awards finalists
- 1997 all over again?
- The Sunday Poem: Jungle Book part V
- Offshoring gambling may not work
- CoDe Magazine Article on XNA
- Ads to kids in VWs
- GoPets and avatar rights
- Now that’s a serious game
- Fantastic interview of Jon Blow
- TechCrunch surveys the VW landscape
- Bogost on Colbert
- Random round-up
- Virtual Goods Summit 2007 – Conference Videos
- The Sunday Poem: The Pangrammatic Fox
- ACM Sandbox Symposium: Rendering Volumes with Per-Pixel Displacement Mapping
- Entropia to use CryENGINE2
- Wonderland: BlizzCon pics
- Sandbox: an ACM Video Game Symposium
- Multiverse goes 1.0
- Art Games: Best Indy Titles
- Club Penguin sells for $700m, to Disney
- Virtual Worlds News interviews Hui Xu, HiPiHi CEO
- Comic-Con thoughts
- Rose & Camellia
July 2007
- Some interesting links
- Kingdom of Loathing is doing quite well
- The Sunday Poem: Network Optimization
- When Worlds Collide | IGDA San Diego
- SL shuts down gambling
- Paul Heydon on casual games
- Ramblings on Social Networking Services
- Wow reaches 9 million
- Cooking up Chemistry
- Charles Stross has pre-traumatic future shock
- Newsweek looks at HiPiHi
- The Sunday Poem: Pistachio
- The last Harry Potter
- Book Review-O-Rama part two
- MMOs up for an Emmy
- Chore Wars
- Bartle’s 5 most important folks in virtual worlds
- Making Starry Nights
- Single-player Singularity
- Barbie Girls (maybe) registers 3m
- The Sunday Poem: Why It Is Hard
- GH3 and strippers?
- Star Wars Galaxies – The Galactic Senate
- Briefly noted
- An eye on Trion
- SL in a browser
- The Sunday Song: Variations on Longitude
- Book review-o-rama part one
- More on Metacrasher
- Askville to Questville
- Metacrasher: bridging virtual worlds
- Player sues player over user-created content
- NPD offers a new gamer demo study
- Gold farmers get creative about advertising
- Eww – ads on XBLA achievements
- Auto Assault sunsetting
- Some good legal news for Linden
- Analysis of the new Bragg v Linden filing
- Monday Mailbag: WorldsInMotion, postures, games as art
- The Sunday Poem: Guitar Strap
June 2007
- Interview at Cross Gamer
- The Reiser Story
- Analyzing console online revenues
- Bloxorz
- Slate surveys serious games
- Korea starts taxing RMT
- What thoughtful criticism of videogames looks like
- Briefly noted
- The Sunday Song: The Knyghte’s Daliaunce
- Sherwood Dungeon
- A new video subgenre
- Metaverse Roadmap doc is out
- VGSummit2007: the other sessions
- VGSummit2007: Making Virtual Economies Work
- VGSummit2007: Why Virtual Goods Matter: What’s Driving User Adoption?
- VGSummit2007: Virtual Goods Success Stories
- Supernova2007: Clay Shirky on Love
- Supernova2007: Denise Caruso on risk
- Susan Wu on virtual goods
- Supernova2007: Virtual Life or Virtual Hype
- Whither Online?
- My Vision Doc outline
- Art! or Art? or Art :P
- Two notable articles
- Updated verse
- The Sunday Song: Son de Don Con
- How Open Big virtual worlds grow
- What is a virtual world?
- IBM/MIT Virtual Worlds conference notes
- GigaOM’s Top 10 Most Popular MMOs
- Areae hiring a Director of Business Development
- Virtual Goods Summit, Supernova
- Virtual Lower East Side
- Old guard?
- Gamasutra posts audio of Where Game Meets The Web
- Tired of hearing about the NGE
- CNN Future Summit
- Monday Mailbag: a new MMO blog, Karma Tycoon
- The MMO Gamer digs into Entropia (updated)
- Crossing the cultural gap
- The Sunday Poem: The Piano Teacher’s House
- The 15 Geekiest Vacations
- Cyber MEGACITY + more on Meet-Me
- Olive
- Nongamers? Really?
- Boggle
- Meet-Me, new Japanese virtual world
- Eve democratic?
- Some HiPiHi details
- NYT looks at kids’ worlds AGAIN
- Help a student out — take this survey
- First release of MMOGData subscription data
- Korea may regulate user-created content
- Speaking of boundaries and morality…
- Monday Mailbag: full body controls, racism, forums, education, & design docs
- Presidential Pong
- The Sunday Poem: All Stories Are Like This
- WaPo jumps in the virtual behavior fray
- The boundaries of user created content
- More on the Hernandez v IGE suit
- Big or small valuations?
May 2007
- Class action suit against IGE
- TOSes in trouble?
- Multiverse gets more funding
- Is a standard lurking?
- Mundos Virtuales en Latinoamerica
- Google maps and photos
- EVE scandal a frame job?
- Virtual money laundering in the news
- MMO long tails
- The Sunday Song: Share Some Secrets
- Blizzard sues in-game spammers
- Argentum Online
- MMOGData.com
- Political cartoons? Nah! Games!
- N makes it to the closed platforms
- A guild gets a history book
- F13.net interview #3
- Sanya’s back
- Quit being snobby about user-created content
- East vs West
- Anshe to make cross-world financial exchange
- Web in world or world in web?
- The Sunday Poem: Life & Love
- MyMiniLife
- Lloyd Alexander (1924-2007)
- Be-Bratz joins the fray
- F13 interview part 2
- Timeless Cities, FakeTown, Voki
- Club Penguin to sell to Sony?
- More Areae jobs!
- OGDC write-ups
- Spinword: discount for Raph readers
- Here come the bankers
- Google files patent on analyzing your gameplay
- A brief SF tale
- F13.net interview from GDC
- Blogpocalypse
- The Sunday Poem: The Genius Goes Away
- Some farming and RMTing in Korea illegal on Monday
- Translation services restored
- Or maybe it’ll be German… Papermint
- Good article on the new BarbieGirls MMO
- Uh
- Or maybe it’s Japanese…
- What if the Metaverse were Chinese?
- Follow the money
- GDC interview of me on Gamasutra.com
- 15th wedding anniversary
- Second Life ‘child abuse’ claim
- A World’s Fair for VWs in SL?
- Voice vs text
- Virtually Blind – Virtual Law | Legal Issues That Impact Virtual Worlds
- Stuff I missed while camping
- Try out text-to-speech
- The Sunday Poem: Crossing the Smokies
- An ARG to solve real problems
- XFire MMO stats graphed
- More roundup, due to illness
- New mugs & stuff
- Is text chat corrupting our language?
- A quick roundup of interesting articles
April 2007
- The Sunday Poem: Driving to Tainan
- Mud-Dev2 no more (again)?
- 3pointD.com interviews IBM
- IBM makes a strange choice
- The game without treadmills
- A video review of AToF
- The Sunday Song: Pick ‘Em All Up
- Web 2.0 Expo: Audio of the panel
- Web 2.0 Expo: panel notes
- Web 2.0 Expo: Audio of my talk
- Web 2.0 Expo: Red Herring covers my talk
- New podcast on MUSHes
- Areae’s hiring more…
- Web 2.0 Expo: Immersive Design
- Virtual Cultures: new MMO blog
- Web 2.0 names are hard!
- Why Online Games Are Dictatorships according to Cory Doctorow
- ProtoSphere
- EA makes avatars
- The Sunday Poem: Flicker
- Atariverse?
- Alternatives To Second Life
- New article in Massive Magazine
- SL gambling question hits Korea
- Pearls Before Breakfast – washingtonpost.com
- Speaking at Web 2.0 Expo
- Paternalistic or libertine?
- XBox caves, adds keyboard
- Korea gets into metaverses
- The Sunday Song: The March of the Elephants
- Webkinz the next Beanie Babies?
- The Hills in Times Square
- Linden decides against casino ads
- Another game notation system
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Cursor hackers target WoW players
- Signs of the Time
- Study finds stable personalities unaffected by violent games
- FBI and Gambling in SL
- Talking next-gen gaming
- The Sunday Poem: Amelia on Nikumaroro
- From Webkinz to Girlz
March 2007
- Game Giveaway of the Day
- WoW is now a newspaper blow-in
- Looks like pjio is back
- Hugo nominees are out
- ETech07: The Core of Fun
- ETech07: coverage of my talk
- ETech07: Seth Raphael & Indistinguishable from Magic
- VW2007: Clickable Culture has you covered
- ETech07 liveblog: Incantations for Muggles
- Massively multiplayer algebra
- Croquet SDK 1.0 Released
- Exploiting the space
- Good CNN Money article on Webkinz and Club Penguin
- The Sunday Poem: Driveways
- Recent reading: the paperbacks
- Creating Passionate Users: User Community and ROI
- Twittering away
- Ludium II announced
- Keynote at ETech
- Third-party metaverse developers
- NASA gets into it too
- This is non-fiction
- Understanding Games: Episode 3
- The Marriage
- Under the gaming influence
- FlowPlay, Maple money, and racing
- The Sunday Song: This Don’t Groove
- King Lud IC’s on fire
- IGDA San Diego » What Makes A Next-Gen Game?
- Qwaq: commercializing OpenCroquet
- Understanding Games: Episode 2
- SXSW 07: Will Wright Keynote
- UCSD event from February
- GDC 07: GameZombie interview
- Ten Ton Hammer interview
- Reuters/Second Life » Interview with Areae’s Raph Koster
- The Laws in Russian
- SXSW 07: User-Creation in Gamespace
- SXSW07: Avatar based Marketing
- Getting interviewed in SL today
- The Sunday Poem: Circadian
- GDC 07: article on game meets web presentation
- GDC 07: Where Game Meets the Web
- GDC07: GameSpy covers the Sharing Control panel
- Thoughts on GDC
- GDC 07: Jon Blow’s Nuances of Design session
- GDC 07: Game Studies Download
- MMO Past Present & Future summaries
- GDC: MMOs past Present & Future
- The tail wags the dog
- Project Darkstar goes open source
- Alice blogs what I fail to
- GDC day 1
- Lego goes MMO too
- The Sunday Poem: I don’t think I wrote this
- The Second Life competitors materialize?
- Fox News on Edwards in SL
- Amped News on Project Horseshoe
- Nuances of Design: Andean Bird returns!
February 2007
- My GDC and SXSW schedule
- Areae’s still hiring…
- Star Traders
- Study: Vanity on the rise among college students – CNN.com
- The meteor finally makes the news…
- Kaneva comes clean
- The Sheep get funding
- The Sunday Poem: Jungle Book, part III
- fl0w PS3
- Virtual Sanity // GamesIndustry.biz interview
- Gorgeous retro arcade images
- Doomcasting SL
- For Jonathan Z of CTIN 482, Pizer’s class
- Buying your way to the top, again
- The registrations game
- Going big?
- The Sunday Poem: Moldering
- Today’s outage…
- But is it art?
- Tech savvy European youngsters
- Happy Birthday, LegendMUD!
- Sparter: peer to peer RMT network
- Imaginary Realities also resurrected
- Talkin’ Tyra
- RealMMO/RLMMO interview
- The Sunday Poem: The Genius Explains Painting
- Viva Pinata family settings?
- Archon Returns!
- Second Life hard numbers
- Reminder: UCSD event today
- The power-levelling industry
- SOE whitepaper on Station Exchange
- Why MUD-Dev was so good
- MUDDev Archive in forum form
- My GDC talks and panels
- The Gamerscore challenge
- Ganking, meaning, and playing as you are
- GameGum: YouTube for games #27,462
- The Sunday Poem/Song: Longitude
- Virtual Worlds 2007
- A Theory of Fun for Interactive Fiction Design?
- Peacemaker
- Nintendo DS guitar game
- Full MUD-Dev archive for download
- Site issues update
- DDR rolling out to all West Virginia schools
- After the Guitar Hero comes the guitar army
- UCSD virtual worlds event Feb 8th
- The story that won’t end
January 2007
- That SL server emu…
- Entropia ATM cards go away
- A clash of models
- Even Russia gets real life PKing
- Full text feeds are back
- Next gen community relations
- MUD-Dev archives not lost forever
- Dani Bunten named to AIAS Hall of Fame
- Ongoing site issues
- The Sunday Poem/Song: The Married Life
- Upgraded to 2.1
- I seem to have outgrown my hosting
- NYT on the Slamdance aftermath
- Pondering Pinatas
- The eBay era over?
- A few interesting game design theory posts
- VisitorVille: game tech applied to web stats
- Semi-Sweden
- Second Life under an economic microscope
- Move over, MTV, we’re the BBC
- Sxsw
- Webkinz & kin: yet more mammals
- Gold farmers form trade association
- The weather
- They’re spending time where??
- Project Horseshoe reports posted
- The Case for First Life
- The Sunday Poem: The Cat Came Back and Back and Back and Back
- When your bugs go WAY public
- More on ‘flation and the future
- Is 2007 the year of the online game?
- WOW DDR
- A bit of Areae news
- MTV’s virtual hillscape
- Water Cooler Games – DigiPen forces Slamdance Reinstatement
- The commandments become posters, sort of
- Ack, no more Harmonix Guitar Hero games?
- ‘Flation
- Big name SF/F goes to the small screen
- Using NWN for basic learning skills
- And you thought that WoW battlefields were intense
- In defense of the content consumer
- The Slamdance controversy makes CNN
- Bloginati — a handy site
- The Sunday Poem: Ode to Code, a Geek Poem
- Virtual Citizenship Association
- iPod-based recording studio
- Earth Eternal is announced
- Dual widescreen
- Finally a way to play Guitar Hero on PS3
- Clickable Culture – ‘Gen Nexters’: Social Gamers?
- A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
- Slamdance loses a sponsor
- Virtual bank licenses??
- Three more games leave Slamdance
- Sorry, Jeff — MTV gave me your line
- Utne Reader cover story on games
- flOw quits Slamdance too
- Second Life releases client as open source
- The Sunday Song Lyric: Shannon
- Braid ditches Slamdance in protest
- It had to happen
- Visual history of the Middle East
- Amazing Stupendous Superlate Stories of Scientifictive Fantasy!
- Dan Rubenfield » And now for something actually entertaining
- Finding women developers is hard
- The Experimental Gameplay Workshop
- I met Nolan Bushnell btw
- Mac vs PC? No, SL vs There
- Life With Alacrity: Collective Choice: Experimenting with Ratings
- More on Vietnam on PlayNoEvil
- The risk community noticed virtual money laundering
- Battlestar Galactica Online
- Kongregate is open to the public now
- Site downtime again
- CopyBot gets a ballad
- Vietnam restricts online gaming
- Some year-end site stats
- Top indie games of the year
- As we drove through San Dimas…
2006 640
December 2006
- Scary stats
- LibraryThing
- Furcadia is ten
- The “5 things you don’t know about me” meme
- Mashup Feet
- Stratics Interview
- Holiday wishes thread
- The Escapist – Boutique MMOGs
- Holiday uncheer
- The Sunday Poem: Eves
- Three Rings gets new offices
- Favorite posts this year?
- Q&As in various places
- Holmes meets Cthulhu
- Forbes on game costs
- CNet interviews Anshe
- Tracking Areae
- GDC sessions
- HOOWAH! Player memorabilia
- The Sunday Doggerel
- Announcing Areae
- Occasional reviews part umpteen
- Van Hemlock tackles SL stats
- The SL cultural gap
- More PS3 stuff
- Arguing about virtual property
- Today’s money flows
- PS3 Impressions
- Nerfbat says Please Don’t Clone WoW
- Virtuality: jams versus concerts
- The Sunday Poem: Jungle Book, Part I
- Geek ornaments
- The Game Bookosphere
- The MMO blogosphere map
- I got a Wii
- Top 100 blogs for MMO gamers
- Advice for new parents
- About that Firefly MMO
- RAND and the EU tackle online games
- December Daedalus Project is out
- Cesspit’s Back, Darniaq’s gone
- OverModerated: The Virtues As Applied to Community Management
- Podcast of SoP “Tax & Finance: panel
- 3pointD.com’s take on SoP
- Virtual Worlds Timeline that isn’t mine
- Curse those gold farmers depleting the soil!
- Another report on virtual taxes from SoP
- Now THIS is an aesthetic
- The Sunday Poem: Among the Bees
- Mini-State of Play reports
- Reverse Guitar Chord Name Finder
- Lost posts restored…
- What teens and tweens want in avatars
- Games for Change Closing Address
- The algorithm or art
- Looks like my webhost hiccuped
November 2006
- But is it art?
- Welcome back, Bloglines
- Microtransactions getting a bad name
- Child’s Play 2006
- The Sunday Song: The Coming (Gloria)
- Are microtransactions actually the future?
- YouTube for Games #3
- Korea goes after RMT
- CopyBot Redux, over on VentureBeat
- NPR : Makers of Gaming Systems Reach Out to Wider Audience
- Library of Congress likes retro games
- Raph on NPR : Talk of the Nation today
- Quite BASIC — Web BASIC programming
- HBS students seeking study participants
- From the Mailbag: Afghanistan and elsewhere
- Raph on NPR’s Talk of the Nation
- How’s the book doing?
- The 6th Ministry
- The Wii lines
- The Sunday Poem: Wii
- If you were looking for A Theory of Fun…
- Answering Michelle: Pooling CS data
- Stupid spam and CPU…
- More Second Life stats
- More site housekeeping
- Dibbell on NPR
- CopyBot
- Another day, another SL mention on CNN
- Troubleshooting RSS
- Project Horseshoe: Peachy fallout
- Upgrade complete
- Site issues
- The Sunday Poem: Candy and Candy II
- What Hugo-winning books have you read?
- Another Grand Master gone
- WHat did I say about major media companies?
- Wish-fulfillment
- Project Horseshoe: Influences
- Kira Goes To Hollywood
- Another YouTube for games
- RPG Vault: Online Worlds Roundtable #13 – Part 1
- Beyond Management: Considering Participatory Design and Governance in Player Culture
- YouTube for Games
- Trophy equipment
- The Sunday Poem: Do limericks have titles anyway?
- Trackback Validator rocks
- Off to Project Horseshoe
- I have a new book out, sort of
October 2006
- The taxman DOTH come… in Oz
- Emmert’s Serious Games Keynote
- Multiverse open beta
- Email go poof!
- Gray gamers
- The Sunday Poem: The State of Poetry
- WYSIWYG loot
- GAmes and politics — in a different way
- The Medium That Ate the World with extra Yee PARC
- A pro game post at the Huffington Post?
- Lost Garden: What are game mechanics?
- GoPets seems to be doing well in the US
- Korea’s Gambling and Gaming Woes
- Multiverse in context
- The Sunday Poem: One Hundred Kings
- NPR tackles online worlds
- Synthravels
- Are you using A Theory of Fun as a text?
- MaxiVista rocks
- Games for Health Competition
- Arden
- The taxman doth not cometh aftereth all
- A Series of Unfortunate Reviews
- “Community Building on the Web” is still available
- Here come the tax men!
- KGDI presentation
- Ad Lib Game Development Society
- The Sunday Poem: Earthquakes and Oceans
- Kissing cousin cultures
- What goes in a worldy game?
- Okami
- Tablet lockups
- HBR on VWs
- Next Generation – 50 Books For Everyone In the Game Industry
- Steven Johnson on Spore, AToF
- Influences
- The Land of the Video Geek
- The Sunday Poem: Lions in Vegas
- $90 a minute
- State of Play IV
- Players who post, posters who play
- Runescape in the Wall Street Journal
- Off to Vegas
- Massive Magazine is out
- Second Life posts weekly uniques
- How the Wii was born
- Gambling with the future
- 10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your (online world)
- The Sunday Song: Unicorn
- Ellis Paul concert
September 2006
- Community relations, management, design, and governance
- Philip Rosedale at Picnic 06
- Seed fails to germinate
- Happy Birthday, Meridian 59
- Gemblo… if you like Blokus
- Flow
- Kloonigames and game prototypes
- John M. Ford, 1957-2006
- The Sunday Poem: The Jungle Book part II
- VLB to air TV episode before TV does
- Video Games live concert
- Mihaly interviews Bartle
- MTV bought Harmonix?
- CNN.com – Researchers: Homes have more TVs than people – Sep 22, 2006
- In the car this morning
- Culture clash over Laguna Beach
- Programadores e Desenvolvedores de Jogos
- NPD answers you
- Amazon makes reviews into threads
- Video Games Live tomorrow
- In the newbie’s shoes
- Airport security becomes a game
- NPD market segmentation study
- Harper’s Forum posted
- Games as propaganda, games as statement
- The Sunday Poem: In Shelter Park
- SketchUp to IMVU
- An Entropia tidbit
- Digital Media spots available at GA Tech
- Temeraire meets Peter Jackson
- Very good Iron Realms interview
- Steam becomes more of a publisher
- Speaking of consoles becoming more like PCs….
- Pangya/Albatross coming to Wii
- Virtual Laguna Beach
- Squabble at Gamasutra
- Smed makes a bet
- AGC: the Gamespot interview
- Games on iPod
- AGC: Damion’s “Men in Tights” slides
- AGC: Future of Virtual Worlds panel, @ 3PointD.com
- The Cesspit’s Dead End
- AGC: The Age of the Dinosaurs slides
- AGC: Challenges Facing MMOs, at Darniaq.com
- Second Life security breach hits Reuters
- World of Warcraft: Is It a Game?
- F13 int3rviews me
- The Sunday Poem: Sierras from Above
- AGC: Vernor Vinge’s keynote, at 3pointD.com
- AGC: Sam Lewis’ slides on economy
- AGC: Gamasutra’s take on the talk
- AGC: Damion Schubert, “Moving Beyond Men in Tights”
- AGC: coverage of my talk on “The Age of the Dinosaurs”
- AGC: MMO economies
- CNN.com – Some games may enhance sociability – Sep 6, 2006
- AGC: Rob Pardo’s keynote
- In Austin for AGC
- Using Games to Tap Collective Intelligence
- Two writers I met at Worldcon
- The Sunday Poem: Summer Camp
- Classes and balance
- Will Wright’s BAFTA talk
- Next Generation – A Theory of Games For Just About Everyone
- Vivendi’s investor presentation
August 2006
- The Guardian interviews Blizzard’s Paul Sams
- DFC answers the same WoW question
- Genius
- Playing for fun
- Austin Game Conference
- Giving them what they want
- ijji is here
- Games teaching pointless skills
- Do classes suck?
- The Sunday Poem: On the Carretera Panamericana, South of Lima
- Manifesting
- Worldcon: “World of Warcrack” panel
- Another game law struck down
- Palabra
- I’m at Worldcon
- So much for revenge.
- Table Tennis Revenge
- State of Play IV Asia announced
- Andean Bird 0.4
- Another MMO dev blog
- New Orleans, still
- MMO addiction study
- SL-mediated tinysex
- Some musings on ephemeral pop
- Paper gaming mags
- The Sunday Song: After the Flood
- Shocking study?
- No matter where you go…
- Worldcon schedule
- CNet reviews Cyworld
- A literacy of appropriation
- HD/Blu-Ray
- Getting Mom to play
- Inverting games
- Airport security
- Random Game Design Generator
- Game Poets Society
- MS goes after the amateur
- Open Source Board Gaming
- Trying out CyWorld
- The Sunday Poem: The Old Lady Is
- The 2006 Machinima Festival is taking entries
- Sharp swords & minds
- Business 2.0 hottest startups
- E3, retail, dinosaurs, and mammals
- I am on the cover of Harper’s
- Neck deep in code
- Super Mario Bros. Live
- The Sunday Poem: The Genius Learns about Criticism
- “ArchLord will sell XP!”
- CGW No More… Kinda – Quarter To Three Forums
- Linden Lab Introduces Expressive Puppeteering to Second Life: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
- Games for Health
- Chunking, chess, and fighting Thread
- Virtual heroism
- WorldCon
- ESA speaks on E3
July 2006
- Dibbell’s interview event in SL
- Link collection
- The Sunday Poem: Spiderwebs in Dew
- From the mailbag
- Excellent article on games and emotion
- The Korea Times : Gamers Flip Through Online Games
- Synthetic Worlds Initiative at Indiana University
- Over priced housing market? Right here.
- Games reflecting their times
- Escapist interview
- OOCing around
- The Sunday Poem: Reactions to the Awful News
- MediaRights: News: Games for Change: Serious Fun
- Comic Con 2006
- Vague game less vague: Andean Bird 0.3
- Blokus Trigon
- Another gold farming article
- Cartoon Network’s turn
- Community building
- Use-based systems
- OK, so there IS a TV show
- New reality show
- The Sunday Poem: Valley in Ancash
- PK’ing duck: more on the vague game idea
- Latest news from Korea
- New book reviews: the swing of a cat’s tail
- Wikipedia and Wisdom of Crowds
- A vague game idea
- From the mailbag: Rattlesnakes for Breakfast
- Flash mobs
- The Sunday Poem: Jungle Book part IV
- Misunderstanding customers
- 1894 Stewart banjo
- The Marketing MMO
- 15,000,000,000,000
- California Extreme Classic Arcade Games Show
- Cory on the personal connection
- Interview with mmplay
- Playerep
- The arts in MMOs
- AGC speakers announced
- Stats & plugins
- Improving Game Marketing
- IGDA Casual Games whitepaper released
- The Commandments of Online Worlds
- Back to lit crit
- The Sunday Poem: Scavenger Crow
- A big day
- GDC call for submissions
June 2006
- Click Nothing: Understanding Games (by proxy)
- From the mailbox: 40 ways desktop image
- MTV News – Can Social-Change Video Games Tackle Divorce, Poverty, Genocide?
- HotSpot redux
- Hardcore casual gamers
- Games for Change summary
- Here in NYC @ G4C
- The Merchant of Pixels
- 40 ways to be a better (game) designer
- The Sunday Poem: For Every Fiddle Found
- Random UO anecdote #1
- Prof. Henry Jenkins is blogging
- Ripping, ripping, ripping
- MySpace Roleplaying and testing identities
- Scott McCloud’s creator types
- Massive Magazine
- EA buys Mythic
- User created content
- The Sunday Poem: The Man With Wooden Hands
- The more things change…
- Peter Mulvey concert
- This happened to me
- The lifecycles of a player
- From the mailbag: fan mail, UO, ideas
- More recent reads
- What WoW Cost
- Pages cut off in IE?
- Games for Change Conference
- Ambition
- New Daedalus Project report on roleplaying
- The Sunday Poem/Song: Feel the Slide
- Matt Mihaly is blogging
- Avatar-Based Marketing
- Why don’t our NPCs…
- Hints and Riddles
- selectparks – MMO surveillance questionnaire
- The McDonald’s Interactive Hoax
- UO’s resource system, part 3
- UO’s resource system, part 2
- The Sunday Poem: Greenfield
- UO’s resource system
- Imagining the Internet
- Monthly Report, May-June 2006
- IGDA San Diego site relaunched
- Measuring MMOs
May 2006
- Way cool
- For Richard Bartle
- First sale
- Façade Player Survey
- Search box update
- The Sunday Poem: Paring Away
- Japanese commentary on Player Rights
- Memorial flags
- Reader map
- Creating Passionate Users: If Tech Companies Made Sudoku
- From the Mailbag: Breaking In
- Virtual worlds, visiting rights and restraining orders from Guardian Unlimited: Gamesblog
- Table Tennis, I suck
- Portable identity
- Hard stats on downloads and subs
- Oxo
- Today’s interesting game news roundup
- Horses and the user-governed world
- The Flogging Will Continue…
- Gaia Online
- Games for Change
- Private clubs or public parks
- The Sunday Poem: Caledonian Creation Myth
- What I’ve read lately
- The journey is the reward is a f—–g lie
- The new book: A Grammar of Gameplay
- Entropia Universe vs. TerraNova
- Uru returns
- Paul Simon’s Surprise
- Exceptionalism
- Two more social world developments
- Game History Database
- May
- The Sunday Poem: The Puppy Poem
- Feeling trivial
- A couple of magazine appearances
- Not at E3/At E3
- Yellow Mustangs, crossgender avatars, and Victoria’s Secret
- Another lawsuit for the timeline
- Weird links
- Thoughts on the Metaverse Summit
- CNet on the Metaverse Summit
- Early survey data posted
- The Sunday Poem/Song: December
- Metaverse Roadmap roundup
- Updating the timeline — help needed
- SDForum: CNet’s take
- SDForum: Joi Ito’s keynote
- SDForum: friends and strangers
- Not again…
- SDForum & user-created content
- Jake Shimabukuro
- Metadatamania
- Enter your VWPIN
- A bit of an absence
April 2006
- The Sunday Poem: The City the Genius Built
- Some historical precedent
- Massive, XFire, what’s next?
- New laptop: a tablet PC
- Mischiefblog has a survey
- www.sicher.org: The Game Content Dodge
- The Sunday Poem: So I Remember
- Second Life on the cover of Business Week
- The next next gen
- HDMI, DVI, 360, 8300HD
- Game Rules as Art
- Grand Text Auto’s Notes from Massive
- Self-promotion, bloviating, and pontificating
- No Thanks!
- Guitar Hero II
- Clickable Culture – Airport Screening Is A Badly-Designed Game
- The Sunday Poem: Impression: A Sunrise
- Wonderland: On public service gaming
- Guitar piece: “Spring Break”
- What the Web and games have to teach each other
- That’s a first for me…
- About that new phone…
- Supernova, last year
- Second Life wrestles with “age play”
- Studio Ghibli’s Tales from Earthsea
- Interesting sales figures
- Mental models
- Getting a new phone
- The Sunday Poem: May Storm, La Parguera
- Future Salon/book signing today
- “Naughty America” game makes CNN
- Plane reading
- Lara’s back
- Are Mac games about to die?
- Clint Hocking has a blog
- Company-sanctioned RMT hits single-player games
- Harbingers
- Monthly Report, March 2006
- The Sunday Poem: Last Visit to the Poconos
- Are MUDs and MMORPGs the same thing?
March 2006
- Game Diagrams
- Senate Game Hearing Files
- Mischiefblog designs the next generation of MMOs
- Daedalus Project data, March 2006
- WoW or SL?
- Making Steven Cry
- CGW interview
- My monitor died
- I’m doing a Future Salon
- The Sunday Poem: Out of Water
- GDC Day Three: Butter Pats
- GDC day 5: Top ten lessons from game studies, number zero
- Scenes from GDC 2006
- Leaving SOE
- GDC day three
- Study: Games Are Healthy
- GDC Day Two: Jesper Juul and sandbox play
- GDC 2006 Day One: Designers Meet Social Scientists
- The Hot 100
- GDC Day Two: putting the fun in functional
- GDC 2006 Wiki
- GDC day one
- Off to GDC today
- The Sunday Poem: Wandering Near Nazca
- Places I’ve been
- Innovation or incrementalism?
- Grimwell Online is back
- New MMO Print Magazine
- V for Vendetta
- Got an XBox 360
- Ultra-fast release cycles
- The Sex Lives of Cannibals
- More Japanese discussion of A THEORY OF FUN
- Diabetes management by Nintendo
- At least it’s great company
- Preview of movie on Chinese gold farmers
- I’ll groan
- On Trust, part 3.5: Balkanization
- Deflexion
- Video Game Voters Network
- On Trust, Part III
- The Sunday Poem: Housebuilding Near Montague Farm
- Hail in San Diego
- PowerPoint Presentation – Putting the Fun in Functional
- Shaping perceptions
- Midnighters
- Another prescription/crystal ball
- Darniaq has seen the future of MMOs
- A cooking game
- CAN MMOs be sandboxes?
- Mechanics to metaphor, illustrated
- When game design is outlawed…
- A Theory of Fun milestone — and postmortem
- A bit on how I think games work
- The Sunday Poem: The Smile
- Against All Enemies
- Where’s innovation gonna come from?
- Peering into China
- The Ghost Brigades
- Monthly Report: February 2006
- The Healing Game
- Fixed the feed…
- Danah Boyd on MySpace
- #1!! Sort of
February 2006
- Living Game Worlds 2006: Johnny Wilson’s notes
- Readers respond to Sirlin
- What is your ideal MMO?
- John Kirk’s Design Patterns of Successful Roleplaying Games
- The Sunday Poem: At Age 6
- Putting the world in the box
- What are the lessons of MMORPGs today?
- Greatest Hits of the Skotos Articles
- Dave Sirlin rips WoW
- Gamasutra – Study Shows Gaming Gender Equality in Asia
- American Idol: the world’s most popular MMO?
- New Crayon Game Prototypes
- Chef
- Living Game Worlds 2006: Dale Herigstad’s keynote
- My turn…
- The Sunday Poem: The Age of the Computer Poem
- A conversation with my daughter
- Open Thread #3
- Living Game Worlds 2006: Will Wright’s keynote
- Living Game Worlds day one
- Have single-player games ever existed?
- Shaping Games
- Gamespot interview up
- Happy Valentine’s Day, Kristen!
- Living Game Worlds 2006
- Multiverse Platform video
- Video of Churchill Club panel now available
- Is the shift to online a fad?
- The Sunday Poem: Bridge Saddle
- Some recent reading
- Are single-player games doomed?
- Churchill Club press
- Audition hits 400,000 concurrent in China
- A pain in the neck
- From San Jose
- Titlez
- 「ãŠã‚‚ã—ã‚ã„ã€ã®ã‚²ãƒ¼ãƒ デザイン: 阿ä½ãƒ¶è°·GARAGE
- Amazon.com Plog
- Second Life Escort Ratings
- A side note: trust, convention, and guild trademarks
- Another talk in the Bay Area…
- On Trust, Part II
- The Sunday Poem: Outside School, Lima
- On Trust (part I)
- Video and audio of my PARC Forum “The Medium That Ate The World”
- Lost Garden: The Blind Men and the Elephant: Thoughts on an integrative framework for understanding games
- Saying this once, slowly and clearly
- Rep systems
- A guild trademarks its name
- Tapping Guitar Hero
- Monthly report: January 2006
- Any more corrections to A Theory of Fun ?
January 2006
- One of the worst things about a bad cold…
- Are MMORPGs games?
- A Wrinkle in Time
- The Sunday Poem: How to be a Genius
- Designing the AAA Game: Interview by Dan Arey
- No, I don’t play the piano…
- GamerGod – The Ten Most Interesting Developer Blogs of 2005 by Grimwell
- ACM Sandbox Symposium
- fredshouse.net PARC talk summary
- The future of virtual world commerce
- The PARC visit was great!
- Yeah, but can West Virginia do freeze arrows?
- There are more things…
- Reminder: PARC Forum tomorrow
- Ogle
- Audition
- Haibane Renmei
- The Sunday Poem: The Imaginary Playmate Speaks
- New t-shirt: Games Ate The World
- “The future is in algorithms.”
- What Play Style Do You Prefer?
- Where You Are
- I’m giving a PARC Forum
- Richard Bartle has a very weird brain
- 24 Season 4
- Another interview by Matsuura-san
- Living Game Worlds 2006
- Captchas
- Iteration in games: a mini-rant
- Lost Garden: Creating a system of game play notation
- Make You Happy Tonight
- Mlk
- The Sunday Poem: The Frets
- Bicycles in January
- Patrick Curry is Brave!
- Virtually Lecturing at Wharton
- 2005 – the year in cities
- Shame
- Moore’s Wall
- 26.34 million
- Superheroes, unite!
- *groan*
- Masaya Matsuura’s foreword
- Game Developer – Front Line Awards
- Innovation, evolution, and adaptation
- The Sunday Poem: The Richard Bartle Limericks
- World or not?
- Games and Culture journal issue #1 is out
- (Un)dressing a game
- Julian does Taxes
- Traits, stories, and holy grails
- New Daedalus Project Data
- Treating players like numbers
- The Daedalus Project: Yi-Shan-Guan
- Game design book stuff
- I got my Japanese copies of A Theory of Fun
- Briefly noted: Planarity
- Anda’s Game
- Monthly Report, December 2005
- The Sunday Poem: African Clawed Frog
2005 158
December 2005
- Hugos for games?
- Apparently I’m syndicated on LiveJournal
- The evil we pretend to do
- Some games worth playing
- The Sunday Poem: Father
- Any Korean readers willing to do me a favor?
- The IGF goes retail
- Do levels suck? Part II
- Grumpy Gamer #9
- Briefly noted links
- The end of the world
- First Japanese review of A Theory of Fun
- Kids growing up
- Montague Barn
- Beowulf
- Do levels suck?
- Go visit LegendMUD
- Omoshiroi-no game design
- Appealing to women
- My Neighborhood
- www.legendmud.org/raph is gone
- Why Trauma Center rocks
- Korean gov’t LFG
- The future of content
- Arden Institute
- Open thread #2
- The Sunday Poem: Paradise Shark
- Briefly noted: Dave Duncan, Sharon Shinn
- Forcing interaction
- Will Wright at When 2.0
- Blog of Booth: Instancing part 2: world design
- This is why people often hate marketing…
- Feelin’ groovy (a rant)
- The Pixar Lesson
- Player-centered design
- Where is everybody?
- I’m on NPR tomorrow…
- Multiverse
- The “open big” curve
- Where does popularity come from, or the Wisdom of Crowds revisited
- The Sunday Poem: Jungle Book part VI
- Memorial (guitar piece)
- Eight, Sixteen, Twenty-Two
- Minor site update
- Is there an intermediate gamer?
- Monthly report: November 2005
- Smax
November 2005
- From instancing to worldy games
- Jesper Juul’s book is out
- A Theory of Fun Nominated for Front Line Award
- Chris Whitley, 1960-2005
- A Bartle lead in the NYT?
- Recent site fixes
- Two interesting posts at Only a Game
- The Sunday Poem: Grandmother is Forgetting
- Terra Nova: MMOG eSport?
- It’s Thanksgiving…
- Andrew Greeley
- A Sad Turn of Events…
- Russian Laws, KGC questions
- Snapshot by Linda Barnes
- The Sunday Poem: Soul Food
- r u redy 4 txt?
- On vacation!
- Thinking like the audience…
- Jason, “Hey, Wait” and “Sshhhh!”
- Another old talk… ChinaJoy 2004
- Blue world
- KGC 2005: The Destiny of Online Games
- Whither Online?
- AGC: Bob Moore’s talk on avatars
- KGC 2005: Jason Della Rocca’s take
- OGaming Interview
- The Sunday Poem: The Clock Before Falling Asleep
- KGC is over…
- KGC 2005: The Revolution will NOT be Televised, Bill Roper
- KGC 2005: “Blue Ocean Strategy in Games,” Kim Hak Gyu
- At the Mayfield Hotel
- KGC 2005 Opening Reception
- I’m in Seoul…
- From Taipei to Seoul
- First Korean review of A Theory of Fun
- Tallest building in the world… this week
- The Sunday Poem: Clouds From Above
- Smartbomb
- Off to Asia
- Lost Garden: The myth of programmer-designer greatness
- Why user content works
- AJETS reviews “A Theory of Fun”
- Scott Westerfeld’s “Pretties”
- Lost Garden: A Game Business Model: Learning from Touring Bands
- The Wisdom of Crowds
- How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days
- Sorts of fun, sorts of kfun?
- Online Games Summit in Paris cancelled
- Two cities in the middle of a desert
- New Korean cover for “A Theory of Fun”
- Limited U.S. Release For Electroplankton
- Oh, good
October 2005
- Guild sizes redux
- Zen casinos
- The Sunday Poem: Guernica
- The Sunday Poem
- Psychochild’s Blog » AGC Rant!
- f13.net forums – MMOG Rant
- Hooray
- Pondering Caillois
- AGC summaries
- Melancholy Baby
- Rudy’s redux
- Rudys
- Hotel California
- Damion Schubert’s talk at AGC…
- A Marxist critique of MMOs??
- 2004’s version of the future
- The End of the Game
- Big questions about MMOs
- A snicket, a snacket
- Small world…
- Wired News: The End of the Affair
- Game Studies – A Conversation with Raph Koster
- Hunting witches
- Air, a meditation on how the future hits
- Welcome to the new website…
- IGN/GameSpy Live
- David Jaffe read AToF!
- Training Fall
- Game Informer review
- Korean edition cover
August 2005
July 2005
- Scott Miller’s review
- #1 bestseller! Sorta. Plus, China, IGDA
- Chinese edition is in press
- Some press hits
- How do Amazon charts work anyway?
- Ooops, I forgot to blog
May 2005
- E3 is over
- Press round-up, including Dutch
- LA Times editorial
- PC Gamer UK/GamesRadar interview
- Masaya Matsuura will do the Japanese foreword!
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
- Laws Outline Added
- Poco convincente???
- Oddest review ever
- Slashdot review is up
- WalloWorld -> BlogCritics
- Over the top? Nahhh…
- More reviews