May 30th, 2009 by adam
Do you live in San Francisco? Or, have you ever been there, for a conference, perhaps, or a holiday? (since the games industry’s biggest annual conference takes place in downtown SF, literally adjacent to and physically underneath the memorial)
Have you been to the Martin Luther King memorial?
No, not the famous one(s) elsewhere that are all [...]
May 18th, 2009 by adam
Last week at the LOGIN conference I sat on a panel with three far more smart/successful/famous people than myself entitled “Online Games 2014: Twelve Spoilers for the Future” (I think I was there as “the argumentative one” ;)). The real value of the panel was the four of us arguing^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscussing each other’s predictions, and the [...]
May 18th, 2009 by adam
Richard has often been accused of being “arrogant”, “insane”, and even, simply, “wrong” for his comments along the lines of:
He hasn’t “played” an MMO in decades (possibly “ever”) … because he can’t stop himself from interpreting as he uses them
Surprisingly many MMOs are just WoW by another name
He only needs to play the first few [...]
May 13th, 2009 by adam
Moderator: Joe Ludwig (JL)
Patricio Jutard (PJ), Three Melons
Chris Dyl (CD), Turbine
Rick Lambright (RL), Gazillion
Mitch Ferguson (MF), Carbine
Summary
A lot of nice little anecdotes about MMO middleware experiences – but it would have been nicer to have had a lot more detail on them (not easy to do in panel format).
The panellists briefly touched upon several few [...]
May 10th, 2009 by adam
Reviewing video games is hard. In some ways, it’s an impossible mission: a reviewer has too many conflicting interests:
please the publishers or else be denied access to the materials they seek to review
please their editor or else don’t get paid; but the editor’s primary source of capital is often advertising … from the publishers
answer the [...]
May 4th, 2009 by adam
I’ve been looking around the web and it seems no-one has any good, FREE stats on who the different iPhone developers are, and what they’re doing.
So … I’ve made a 40-question survey (its all yes/no or multiple-choice-answer questions, hopefully it shouldnt take too long to fill out – sorry), and I’ll send the results to [...]