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Hey! I have a new book out... this time I had a LOT of help! Erin Hoffman did the heavy lifting on the editing and book design, and together we pulled in 15 great contributors! Check out the list...
A very thoughtful post... http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/08/05/15-minutes-of-fame-retiring-player-goes-out-with-a-boom/ Full story here: http://www.twentytotems.com/ -Erik Originally posted...
This one from Lance: This rocks! Great great idea for play liquidity... -Erik Originally posted on LiveJournal
Here is a fairly good interview with Rob Pardo. I thought what was especially interesting is the practical discussion of partioal group consensus driven design. I think that is how most of the more...
Link from my Dad... check out this crazy new personal sub! You can buy one here: Cheers, -Erik Originally posted on LiveJournal
So I won a federal suit in the 9th circuit. Nice. www.gopets.com 4 years. I'll post some select delicious bits from the final judgment over time... But what I really want to say is thank you...
This is probably an old and tired topic to many people. But I still think that WoW API for both the client and the web functions is a giant step forward. Think about the humility of Blizzard. ...
My Dad sent me this link: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2008/07/17/information_digital/ Last fall I was at the Garriott event to raise money for the UT video game archives, and now these two...
Erin Hoffman pointed me at Sam Lewis's write up from 2006: http://www.flyingscythemonkey.com/GDC_2006.htm I was struck by how relevent that talk was then, and frankly still is now. Great work Sam....
So yesterday I felt like crap. That was because on top of running around doing just a *few* jobs, I had lets just say gastrointestinal technical difficulties for the previous 3 days. Last night I...
Jeremy Liew at LighSpeed has a great blog on the game & social media business... but here he has a nice tight taxonomy of game business models from David Perry... nicely...
This cool onion video explains the #2 reason that I moved to Korea! Now that this disaster will pass in January I can begin to think again about the net benefit of Mexican food, beaches and nice...
I have been doing a ton of thinking lately. Well I would like to think, that I think most often, so that first sentence is a bit lame. Instead I should say, tt is hard for me to explore what I want...
After waiting 5 weeks and multiple faxings of identity cards Blizzard has un-banned my wife's account on the US servers. They never did explain what it was in the first place that caused the ban -...
So as I have blogged here before we as a family play a bunch of WoW. We have leveled up our fair share of characters (my wife more than me!) We have bought gold, we have bought characters, we have...
So lately I have been obsessed with watching wingsuit videos on YouTube. Below is the coolest one ever, check out how close Espin comes to the rock walls and the road at one point. We really can...
Okay I am back from ION and there is one talk - a keynote - that stands out in my mind as truly an offensive waste of the time of the audience. I will not refer to the keynote speaker by name, but...
I had a question on what it would take to make a Star Trek MMO given the latest events in the industry. Earlier in my career I was the lead designer and producer on the Starfleet Command series of...
Kyle just learned how to ride a bicycle last week! Here is riding south on the Tancheon river next to our house. He would go on to ride 31km this day! I am shocked, that is 19 miles on just his...
I am now in Seattle to attend the renamed online game conference now ION 08. Had a great day yesterday, started off with a walk on the shores here with Mark Terrano sitting on rocks exchanging a...
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