Occasionally I come up with ideas for what my ideal MMORPG would be like. Here’s a MMORPG I want to see made. It’s very similar to a game I wrote about a few years ago. I don’t even know what to call it. It’s more than a sandbox, more than a virtual world, more than [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Virtual World’
Virtual Worlds and Social Consequence
May 9th, 2012
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We had a discussion today and some intriguing ideas came up about player psychology. We started talking about how just because players can do something doesn’t mean they should. We ended up theorizing ways in which virtual worlds, not necessarily “games”, could be constructed to facilitate a deep and meaningful experience. In Open-PvP when players [...]
The “Ultimate RPG” – Again?
February 11th, 2012
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The consensus seems to be that Dr. Richard Garriott has lost his marbles. Some call(ed) him the father of online gaming. Some only know him for the failure of Tabula Rasa. Some know him as Lord British, the creator of one of best (if not the ultimate) massively multiplayer online role playing games. Despite thinking [...]
