links for 2007-09-11

Old footage of the great game The Nev­er­hood. They don’t make them like this any­more. Ten­Napel also cre­at­ed Earth­worm Jim and the com­ic GEAR. Good stuff.

“Vast­Park is a vir­tu­al con­tent plat­form fea­tur­ing free tools, rev­o­lu­tion­ary dis­trib­uted con­tent syn­di­ca­tion and enables you to deploy your own vir­tu­al world or online game with­in sec­onds roy­al­ty free.”

Thoughts on using social net­works to find suit­able play­mates in MMOs. I won­der wether the open social graph crowd have giv­en this any thought – mov­ing beyond the well-known social web into gam­ing territory.

Post that links to the slides of Koster’s talk at AGDC07. Scary amount of over­lap in premise with my planned talk at the Euro IA Sum­mit. Lots of very use­ful stuff on the gra­mar of games.

At this year’s Game Devel­op­er Con­fer­ence, Raph explained web 2.0 to game design­ers and devel­op­ers. This result­ed in a very enter­tain­ing set of slides at least.

Very easy to fol­low along, even though it’s just the slides. Inspiring.

Matt Webb re-explains his con­cept of the expe­ri­ence stack, which he pre­sent­ed at dCon­struct 2007. I for one loved the con­fus­ing nature of the talk (I don’t mind a lit­tle hard work as audi­ence) but think this is use­ful nonetheless.

Fun – Ziade mocks up the inter­face the iPod touch *should* show when walk­ing into a Starbucks.