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What Happened to Tabula Rasa?
Two interesting blog posts went up on Friday, both from the perspective of ex-NCSoft employees discussing the failure of Tabula Rasa. The first one is from Adam Martin, who was the CTO of NCSoft...
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Braid, Aesthetics, and Ethics
This week’s 1UP FM is a fascinating round table/interview with Jonathan Blow (Designer/Programmer of Braid), David Hellman (Artist of Braid), Rod Humble (Executive Producer at EA/Experimental Game...
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Mythic’s Paul Barnett Has Interesting Ideas
Paul Barnett, Creative Directory at Mythic Entertainment (Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online) recently gave a talk at the Develop conference entitled “The Top 11 Lessons from Warhammer Online”....
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The World Ends With You: Best JRPG Ever
I’ve now played 30 hours of The World Ends With You (for Nintendo DS), and I think it is the best Japanese RPG ever made. It may not necessarily be everyone’s favorite (I think Chrono Trigger is still...
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BioShock has too many mechanics?
A few days ago, John Rose from Nihilistic Software wrote a feature for Gamasutra. The basic thrust of the piece is that if you overfill a game with game mechanics, they complicate the game, confuse the...
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Why Games Aren’t Creative Anymore
“Think outside the box” is one of those catchy phrases that management-types like to throw around so much. The idea is that to come up with new and creative ideas, one needs to throw away all...
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Character Classes and Skills: Why They Suck
“Classes vs. Skills” is a very old debate in the MMO and general RPG business. It gets trawled out every year or so (here’s a random slashdot post with a bunch of blog links from last year), and it’s...
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The Science of Happiness and Mob-Slaying
A few weeks ago, I was on a cross-country flight with nothing in particular to do. So, I read The Science of Happiness by Stefan Klein. It’s a popular science overview of research into happiness, in...
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