Wow cool, diagrams!

Wow there really was a great reception to the talk that I gave on Monday at GDC in the Worlds in Motion Summit!

I never before had anyone draw a diagram from a talk I gave, and this week I got three sort of:

One genuine diagram of my comment that green mana bars are hubris:

Another where I was compared to the grouch for agreeing with the other CEOs that splitting the equity evenly at founding always leads to bad feelings:

And here is an xkcd diagram used to illustrate my thesis that these goal structures should be applied to working out!

More coverage of my talk: In Japanese! http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kono3478/20080219

Gamasutra http://216.92.222.181/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17452

Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed VC http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/applying-game-dynamics-to-virtual-worlds/

Payment Systems for Online Games http://paymentguy.blogspot.com/2008/02/gopets-bethke-on-mmo-goal-structures-as.html

Electric Sheep http://blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/swords/2008/02/18/worlds-in-motion-mmo-goal-structures-as-a-panacea/

Animation Express http://animationxpress.com/index.php?file=story&id=4631#

Massively http://www.massively.com/2008/02/18/gdc08-exercise-the-mmo/

Untold Entertainment http://untoldentertainment.com/blog/2008/02/27/three-startup-tips-from-gdc-2008/

Worlds in Motion http://www.worldsinmotion.biz/2008/02/mmo_goal_structures_as_a_panac.php <div

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