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How online changes everything | Game Development | Interview by Develop

How online changes everything

MIGS 2007: Jonathan Blow On The 'WoW Drug', Meaningful Games

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MIGS 2007: Jonathan Blow On The 'WoW Drug', Meaningful Games

MIGS 2007: Jonathan Blow On The ' WoW Drug', Meaningful Games At the 2007 Montreal Games Summit, Jonathan Blow, creator of 2006 IGF Design Innovation award winner Braid, addressed the subtle assumptions that underlie the modern game development process.

Many of these assumptions, he asserted, are damaging, founded in the fabric of tradition and consistently reinforced by a lifetime of games. Blow proposed a fresh mindset and the need for a new perspective on game design, with the goal of fostering enhanced creativity and deeper, more meaningful games.

Blow opened by discussing a New York Times op-ed by Daniel Radosh that dealt with Halo 3, finding that the game clove dutifully alongside its formula and added little innovation over previous installments. He highlighted a particular excerpt to introduce his point; from the article:

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We are one of China's leading online game developers and operators in terms of revenues, and our free-to-play online game ZT Online was the most popular online game in China in 2006, according to a report published by IDC. Our focus is on massively multiplayer online, or MMO, games.

A Model for Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games System Performance

A Model for Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games System Performance

A Model for Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games System Performance

Rakes of Kildare Hammered Dulcimer

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Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system

Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system - Yahoo! News

Thu Aug 21, 5:31 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets.

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OLAP market share analysis

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About Netcraft
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England. Netcraft is funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways:

* Providing internet security services, including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing.
* Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet.
* Accepting advertising on the Netcraft web sites.

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VastPark

OpenSocial distributed social networking will be integrated into VastPark.com - Grow your own virtual world

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VastPark is virtual worlds technology done right. It's not a single virtual world. Instead, it is a series of tools, APIs and libraries that you can use to make and deploy (and even monetize) your own virtual worlds and 3D widgets for corporate, educational and commercial purposes.

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DataPortability

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Gmail Account Hacking Tool

Gmail Account Hacking Tool | Hacking Truths

Gmail Account Hacking Tool

Aug 19, 2008 by Ashik in Cracking, Decryption, Google Hacking, Orkut Hacking, Security, Software, Tips n Tricks | Tags: Account, Adsense, Blogger, Cracking, GMail, Google, Hacking, Orkut


A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers’ conference in Las Vegas.

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

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Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

All resources in this list are freely available. I deliberately avoided references and links to material hidden behind the dark curtain of registration. Why should I pass along the punishment?

Unleash the power of the players

Unleash the power of the players, says CCP // News // GamesIndustry.biz

Unleash the power of the players, says CCP

Dr Eyjolfur Gudmondsson has revealed that the active player population for its space-based MMO Eve Online has hit 245,000 - not the biggest player population for an online game, but because all of those people are playing on the same, unsharded server, it's possible to see the influence that they have over the game.

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Iterative Design

Iterative Design - GameCareerGuide.com

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Iterative Design
[07.22.08]
- Brandon Van Slyke
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One word you'll hear tossed around all the time in the game industry is "iterative."

It's a seemingly innocuous little word -- so are its other forms: iterate, iteration, and in code, iterator. Nevertheless, it's become increasingly necessary for modern game developers to understand the importance of the iterative process and to realize how this catchall term denotes the general progression of design and implementation in a major game studio

The Game Industry Salary Survey 2007

The Game Industry Salary Survey 2007 - GameCareerGuide.com

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The Game Industry Salary Survey 2007
[09.03.07]
- Jill Duffy
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Seventy-three thousand dollars a year.

That's the number that got a little bit of buzz this year. It's the average salary of a game developer. But it's just a number, and it's nowhere near what entry-level candidates should vie for when sealing the deal of their first industry job; nor is it a perfect bar against which to measure game developer salaries regionally, since the cost of living varies drastically between states like California, Texas, and North Carolina.

The Stages of a Group: Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing and Adjourning

The Stages of a Group: Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing and Adjourning - Associated Content

The Stages of a Group: Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing and Adjourning

Genre Wars: This Year's Biggest Action Adventures

Genre Wars: This Year's Biggest Action Adventures | Edge Online

Genre Wars: This Year's Biggest Action Adventures

RPGs to Rule the World

RPGs to Rule the World | Edge Online

This is part three of our genre-oriented look at the games market in the near future. For our reasoning and methodology behind this series, please check out our first entry on shooters. Part two on action adventures is also available. Today we’re looking at RPGs—an increasingly difficult category to find the borders for, as many, many sorts of games now integrate the genre’s addictive stat-building and inventory mechanics. Much like shooters, it’s probably most appropriate to take a “we know them when we see them” approach to defining the field.

EDGE'S TOP 100 GAMES OF ALL TIME

EDGE'S TOP 100 GAMES OF ALL TIME | Edge Online

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Next-Gen has the online exclusive full list of Edge's Top 100 Games. Click through for the best 100 games of all time, as judged by the readers and writers of Edge, as well as game industry insiders

Quantcast - Open Internet Ratings Service

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Quantcast is a new media measurement service that lets advertisers view audience reports on millions of websites and services. Only Quantcast combines directly measured audience data with panel-based estimates to deliver accurate third-party metrics and easy-to-read profiles on digital media properties.

Agile Tool Vendors

Wide Awake Developers: Agile Tool Vendors

Agile Tool Vendors
August 08, 2008

There seems to be something inherently contradictory about "Enterprise" agile tool vendors. There's never been a tool invented that's as flexible in use or process as the 3x5 card. No matter what, any tool must embed some notion of a process, or at least a meta-process.

Implementing Scrum: Blog

Scrum Blog -- Implementing Scrum -- Scrum Blog -- Comic Strips and Blog Entries for Scrum, an Agile Software Development Technique.

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Advisory provided by Google - weird...

I was searching for an old looking worldmap , found one and intended to view it in its original size. After clicking on the thumbnail, i got the following warning, provided by Google:


Malware Warning

Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!
Suggestions:

* Return to the previous page and pick another result.
* Try another search to find what you're looking for.

Or you can see the image in its own context http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=648 at your own risk. For detailed information about the problems we found, visit Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic page for this site.

So i decided to indeed check the diagnostics page for this site, with the following result:


Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for www.muslimheritage.com/topics/

Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for www.muslimheritage.com/topics/

What is the current listing status for www.muslimheritage.com/topics/?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 11 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 08/05/2008, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days.

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, www.muslimheritage.com/topics/ did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.


It wouldnt have caught my attention until i read the name of the domain that is hosting the image. I wonder why it is blacklisted since the diagnostic results are all fine...

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Visualizing a Large Product Backlog With a Treemap

Visualizing a Large Product Backlog With a Treemap | Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile™

Suppose you have a very large product backlog–such as one with lots of themes (groups of related user stories) or being worked on by multiple agile teams. The best way to visualize this product backlog is with a treemap. Treemaps were invented in the 1990s by Dr. Ben Shneiderman as a way of visualizing hierarchical (that is, tree-structured) data.

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