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Thursday, April 12th, 2007I got bored the other day and was doing a little random romping about Gaia Online. While doing so, I came upon an amusing fellow who posted the following. I find it not only amusing for its application to gaia but the fact that, if you exchanged the word Gaia for whatever online game you […]
Playing in the Sandbox: Spore and Lego
Thursday, March 15th, 2007The genre which is becoming known as sandbox games is one I’m getting pumped over at the moment. I tried Second Life briefly and, although the game had great potential, was rather disappointed. Their controls were complicated and everything was far too commercialized.
At the moment there are two games I’m looking forward to. The first, […]
Persistant Browser Based Games
Monday, March 12th, 2007Back before I had a good computer that could handle games with any semblance of graphics or CPU usage, I used to play a lot of Browser Based RPGs. Regardless of the simple graphics and equally simple gameplay, many of them were quite fun.
Now-a-days a couple things have happened. The first is that a flood […]
Oh, the Mayhem!
Monday, February 26th, 2007I’ve spent large portions of the weekend enraptured by Team17’s Worms series. At first I was playing the demo of Worms World Party, which is a game a played years ago and loved. Then I figured, why not? And went to check out the newer Worms games.
Worms Forts and Worms 4: Mayhem, both had a […]
Pros and cons of degrading items
Sunday, November 26th, 2006Degrading items are an interesting issue to look at. On the one hand we have the example of puzzle pirates: The economy flourishes as people actually need to continually buy things. The normal inflation which plagues mmorpgs is staved off. In this example, the things which gamers don’t really need; fancy clothes, super weapons, etc. […]
Changes Through Time of the Gaming Guild
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006My early days of gaming guilds took place of Battle.net with the old Starcraft and Diablo guilds. Those were different days for would-be organizers of online guilds. Creating a guild consisted merely of creating a cool acronym and plastering it on the beginning of your name. That was the easy part. Next you had to […]