Feedback Methods #2

04Feb09

In my recent spate of trolling fellow bloggers comment sections with my unholy walls of text I stumbled into the following conversation with a member named Mist, over on Scott Jennings’ blog. As with my last entry, I thought it was interesting enough to share here.
It’s a very interesting article, by the way, so if [...]

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Tags: Community Management, feedback, Game Design, Scott Jennings

Fun = Success

19Jan09

Your role as a designer is to recognize and develop fun concepts, period. Fun is the core of gaming as a whole, and absolutely everything else builds up from that foundation.
This post was inspired in part by this very well written retrospective from Adam Martin, where he talks about why he believes Tabula Rasa failed. [...]

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Tags: Adam Martin, Fury, Game Design, PvP, Scott Jennings, Tabula Rasa

Scott Jennings’ MMO news headlines, and Paul Barnett doesn’t play MMOs?

18Sep08

In his latest blog post Scott Jennings goes over all the recent tidbits from the MMO world.

Wrath of the Lich King release date now official
Blizzard Releases some impressive numbers in a stockholder/analyst call
Age of Conan PvP updates
More on Age of Conan’s recent leadership change
Warhammer Online release
Paul Barnett on why WAR is better than WoW
Paul Barnett [...]

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Tags: Age of Conan, Broken Toys, Paul Barnett, Scott Jennings, Warhammer, World of Warcraft, WoW