Posts Tagged ‘MMOGs’

Where Social Software Should Go Next — Habitat’s Lessons

In Articles on 21 April 2008 tagged control, creativity, evolution, game design, Habitat, interaction design, MMOGs, moderation, play, social software with Comments Off

MMOGs have not progressed since 1990. Neither has social software. Well maybe a little, but not much. At least that’s what I’m lead to believe after reading another wonderful essay in The Game Design Reader—a book I like to dip into once in a while to read whatever catches my fancy. In The Lessons of [...]

What Should a Casual MMOG Feel Like?

In Articles on 6 December 2007 tagged aesthetics, casual, emergence, game design, GD, interaction design, IxD, massively multiplayer online games, MMOGs, MMOs, PMOGs, Second Life, Shigeru Miyamoto, short-session, SL, virtual worlds, World of Warcraft, WoW with 8 comments

I’m finding myself in the starting phases of designing a casual MMOG (or virtual world, if you prefer that term). When I say design, I mean determining the structure and behaviour of the world — interaction design, in other words. It’s an interesting challenge (and a significant change from designing mobile games, to say the [...]