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Elf needs food badly @Everything2.com -Just one of myriad helpful hints that the classic arcade game Gauntlet would speak to the players from some wacky sample memory thingee.Others incl: Don't shoot the food. ...
got a message like "Red wizard shot the food"..when one of your own companions screws the whole party over, the rage.. //so shooting the food is screwing the other guy over? hrm. prvs pgmrk-dlcs forums - I d n see how wizardishungry offended (if that's w
delicious support forum - Curious about new infrastructre
-WIZARDISHUNGRY: (I am not a Yahoo! Employee) but IIRC at least some the new stuff is written in Symfony/PHP which Yahoo! Bookmarks uses as well. -braino dlcs team m: as a back-end engineer who's been w Dlcs since before it was part of Yahoo! (2005), I c
blogoscoped: Google Lively FAQ
rw: New GgLively FAQ [Blgscpd] // a list of questions with tips and tricks for Google’s 3D chat world, Lively.
blogoscoped: Google Releases 3D World Lively | ...After installing the desktop setup for Windows – yes, this is one of the rare Google products which isn’t completely browser-based
rw: Intro/overview to Google's 2ndLife-alike, Lively [Blgscpd w/pix] //Traces of this program appeared in 2007 under name of My World & also received rumor nickname Google Metaverse.
lively.com/catalog | This exciting experience lets you interact and express yourself with avatars, within rooms you create.
You'll be able to: *Chat w friends or meet new contacts online. *Create & decorate your own room - & invite your friends over. *Personalize your surroundings w an ever-growing catalog of avatars, outfits, furniture, & rooms to build up.
Lively - Experience another dimension of the web - lively.com/popular = Popular Rooms
rw: Google's free new 2ndLife-alike [500k-download via Fim] // Google Room: Tour this amalgamated sampling of Google Mountain View. / Dating Cafe / High School / Lost : finding nemo [?] / Brasil Lively / french - salon
The collected game design rants of Marc LeBlanc - Mechanics/Dynamics/Aesthetics (MDA) framework (pdf) + other papers - 8kindsoffun:
game as: sense pleasure (sensatn). social frame (fellowship). uncharted terr (discovery). obstacle course (challenge). make-believe (fantasy). unfolding story (narrtv). soap box (expressn). mindless pastime (submissn)
Lost Garden: What are game mechanics? = rule based systems / simulatns th facilitate & encourage a user to explore & learn th properties of their possibility space thr use of feedback mechanisms
lets user know their actions are having some impact on the system. incl social, narrative, emotional elements in addition to purely analytical problems.
interviewr [Conversations with flickr users] | Mattias Adolfsson
May 8, 2008. photo w cute dog, back to back. wife also an artist: book binder as well as being an illustrator &graphic designer. //site is new, this is second post.
Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms : | We dip into the cauldron of story and place it in front of you to read.
This wiki is a catalogue of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction. Tropes are devices & conventions can expect present in audience minds. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. //diff url markd before? ~'idiom' longish ago. had bkmrkd in browser.
Wide Open Sandbox - There's no time limit. No restraints. No objectives, no requirements. You can do whatever you want, whenever you want.
trend gaining ea yr: a central goal /to 'finish' the game/ & incred amount optionl material, set up in a massive open world. PS2 trilogy of Grand Theft Auto brought spotlight. Sim City. Pretty much any Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game ever.
Quicksand Box - Television Tropes & Idioms
"I've got a brass key, an amulet, two plasma couplers marked #1 & #17-b, a map of a cattery, a codephrase, piranha treats, the second half of a warning for 'Kevin,' and no idea." //via prvs: cmmt link to "point of no return' on tvtropes
ksleet: I got soul, but I'm not a soldier. ..my very favoritest game in the whole entire 2007 was indeed Mass Effect. Yes, forgive me, it even beats out [Valve's] Portal.
Overall the character generation & customization in this game is just lovely. Name: Nariya Shepard. Background: Has been the only survivor of more tragic life experiences than you've had hot dinners. Class: Infiltrator. Personality: tries to act the part
project-apollo.net/blog one small small step: a weblog
i sense someone who is jealous of my outsidethebox genius! jealous with envy! /cute //as of 2004 no longer in service. referred to lj. the list of rpg cliches was really v well done, so might like author Mark Sach's writing...
project-apollo.net/text ; i tried to sing along, but damn that radio song
though ev on the WWW has moved on to full sensurround tactile-enhanced neural-linked billion polygon virtual reality envirnmnts, y'll forgive me if I've still got soft spot for the reason why th WorldWideWeb was orig invented... text. Here's some.
project-apollo.net/text/rpg: The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches - #24 Capitalism Is A Harsh Mistress: Once you sell something to a shopkeeper, he instantly sells it to somebody else and you will never see the item again no matter what.
Hey, I Know You! Hey, I Know You,Too! Hey, I Know You, Three! obligatory chars //TheUltimateRule: Anything calld "Ultima (whatever)" or "Ultimate (whatever)" isn't. There's always at lst one thing smwhere in th world wh is even more.= #191 (of 192, nice)
nickyee.com/daedalus/gateway / Complex Play in MMORPGs ...“Play” also takes on new meaning in world where
groups strangers assemble to achieve common goal /y cool/ The drama & intrigue th emerge fr encounters /cool: personalities!/ & fr sustained groups become crux MMORPG experience, more so in fact th the pre-designed game elements.
the DAEDALUS PROJECT: MMORPG Research, Cyberculture, MMORPG Psychology
dlcs -A look back at the past 8 years of researching online games. I describe in detail a specific period in 2005 where I was at a crossroads deciding whether or not to abandon this line of research, and why I made the decision that I did.
CodeFromThe70s.org: Poke | allows you to cheat in every game out there - published or to be published in the future! -
dlcs note: -little app that allows you to search for values in memory & change them, for ex if you have an amount of money in a game [Sims as ex here], search for that number with Poke & change it.
del.icio.us/url/6bcb... Mazapán.se - You Have To Burn The Rope
-No, really, that's it. Burn the rope. -okay, that was pretty cute - [Valve's ] Portal may have changed the direction of game design twrd self-aware humorous games. -Awesome. "Now you're a hero." -I beat the whole damn game!
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