October 30th, 2007 by adam

http://www.own-it.org/events/details/?eventId=227
Speaking at this panel session tonight. Should be interesting. I get to be the bad guy, the one saying that online businesses in other people’s virtual worlds are morally corrupt, and that all Gold Farmers should be hung, drawn, and quartered, and that the world will end, fire and brimstone, cats and dogs living together, [...]

October 30th, 2007 by adam

How do you create a new game studio from scratch?
The topic came up recently when someone asked me what I’d do if I had the responsibility to create a new dev studio - what would I do, how would I go about it, etc? I’ve founded a couple of small startups before (both as CTO [...]

October 21st, 2007 by adam

Networked games use the internet, and the difficulties of making these games evolve on Internet Time, which means that the articles people wrote as recently as a year ago on how to make a networked or multiplayer game are already out of date. Most of the literature is more than 5 years old, and some [...]

October 1st, 2007 by adam

(ARG as in Alternate Reality Game, of course…)
http://www.letschangethegame.org/
A new ARG project from Adrian and Dan, in aid of Cancer Research UK. Great to hear they’ve got this off the ground, it looks like it’s going to be fantastic. But it could also become the biggest event in helping new ARG designers a chance to get [...]