| Online Game Design |
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Constructive Politics in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game
[Added: 4/11/2000]
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Matthew Mihaly
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Adding a polical system to a MMORPG. |
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Creating Effective Groups and Group Roles in MMP Games
[Added: 4/20/2003]
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Mike Sellers
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Provides some design principles to follow based on how current MMP games are encouraging (or not) players to be part of groups within and around the game. |
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Cyberspace in the 21st Century: Cyberspace and Twelve Monkeys
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Crosbie Fitch
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If there were any doubts about the inevitability of the Internet's potential, Crosbie has set out to undermine them in this essay about building "cyberspace." |
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Cyberspace in the 21st Century: Mapping the Future of Multiplayer Games
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Crosbie Fitch
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Crosbie describes the way he sees interactive entertainment developing over the next century, with particular emphasis on scalable, networked interactive entertainment. |
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Glory and Shame: Powerful Psychology in Multiplayer Online Games
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Jonathan Baron
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Takes a look at the psychology behind multiplayer on-line games.
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Has Origin Created the First True Online Game World?
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Dave Greely and Ben Sawyer
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See how Origin has sculpted its massively multiplayer universe into a dynamic, fluid brand of entertainment.
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How Can We Make People Play Less?
[Added: 9/10/2008]
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Circo Continisio
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Programmer Circo Continisio believes that MMORPGs are addictive, and not only should they not be, but that game designers are obligated to live by a code of ethics and design games that are profitable for the company but not harmful to players. |
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Implementing God in the On-Line World
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Ernest Adams
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Has the anarchic arena of online gaming gotten so bad that it needs an all-seeing, vengeful Old Testament-type God to punish the predators and protect the weak? Ernest Adams delves into "that old time religion" for answers. |
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Internet Game Design
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Yu-Shen Ng
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A checklist of what you should know before diving into development of that multiplayer, Internet-based game. |
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Massive Growing Pains Part 1
[Added: 10/28/2004]
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Rick Luebbers
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In the first installment in this series, a student from The Guildhall analyzes the MMORPG genre with input from two of its founding fathers |
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Massive Growing Pains Part 2
[Added: 1/11/2005]
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Rick Luebbers
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In the second part of this series, the author talks to designers from NCSoft about critical elements of MMO design. |
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Massive Growing Pains Volume 3: The Content War
[Added: 7/14/2005]
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Rick Luebbers
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The final installment of this series discusses the ever-escalating feature sets being included in MMOs. |
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MMOG Considerations
[Added: 5/22/2004]
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Richard "superpig" Fine
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This article seeks to provide an overview of some of the issues you should consider when thinking about an MMO project - to give you some of the questions you should be asking, as well as a few possible answers. |
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Online Gaming: Why Won't They Come?
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Jessica Mulligan
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The potential audience is high yet why are so many online ventures struggling? |
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Online Justice Systems
[Added: 4/27/2000]
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Derek Sanderson
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Since online worlds inevitably draw players who want to be criminals, you need to think about creating a fair, reasonable justice system. This article gives you some ideas. |
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Teaching an Old Dog New Bits: How Console Developers are Able to Improve Performance When the Hardware Hasn't Changed
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Andrew S. Gavin and Stephen White
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A video game console doesn't change at all over the course of its lifetime, meaning that developers have to continue finding newer and better ways to develop for a given platform. |
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The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Peter Lincroft
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Want to make a multiplayer space combat simulator run over the Internet? It may not be as easy as you think. Read on to find out why it's not your programmers's fault - it's that darn Internet. |
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The Rules of the Game: Hanging Out in the Lobby
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Ben Calica
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More on the social benefits of being congenial and chatting in the game area lobby. |
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The Rules of the Game: Multi-Player Lobbying
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Ben Calica
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Looks at the art of gathering the right players together for some multiplayer fun. |
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The Rules of the Game: The Masquerade
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Ben Calica
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Tips and tricks on making the most of the lobby area from both a user and developer perspective. |
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Where We Should be Going with Online Games
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Sean Patrick Fannon
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Merciless masters, frustrated newbies, and the increase in "flex and twitch" gaming in RPGs creates a problem. A game designer offers some ideas for maturing the genre. |
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