If you pay any attention to my Twitter posts every week, you may have noticed over the last couple of weeks, or will next week, some strange level gaining in Twitter for a game called Spymaster. Spymaster is probably the first real game that is based around Twitter. Well, at least it’s supposed to be…Continue readingSpymaster Review
I have long been a proponent of death penalties in MMORPGs. Yeah they can sometimes be a harsh penalty that is rather off putting, but there are many reasons why the game design requires the death penalty to be there. Heck I still like the idea of permadeath although I think the time for that…Continue readingDeath Penalties
Thinking back on Ultima Online this last Monday (as small a thought as that was in that particular article), made me want to reminisce with the game. Many call it the first MMO, but really it wasn’t, there were many before it. Certainly it went much bigger than others before it, being the first to…Continue readingThoughts on Ultima Online
So now that I have gone a little further into the Rise of Kunark expansion I thought I’d give more in depth thoughts on the expansion. So far, my thoughts on the game have been fairly cosmetic. I like the largeness of the world, but hate how the world now looks and feels like WoW.Continue readingRoK
I have been very retrospective of my MMO career the past week. I’ve been thinking of past friends, past games, past joy, past sorrow. I look at where I am now and where I’ve been, and I wonder what happened to me. There are many things I wouldn’t change about myself at all. My knowledge…Continue readingLost
My professor this week mentioned a new weird firefox app that uses your surfing to play an MMO-like game.Continue readingNew things I found.