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Entries from July 2005

What do we make of China?

July 8th, 2005 · No Comments

Terra Nova asked a very important question the other day. They noted Blizzard’s localizing of WoW for China. When looking at the aspect of 1.3 billion new consumers potentially entering the gaming market, “What do we make of China? And what do we make of Chinese gamers, now and in the future?” Two easy answers [...]

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Narratology v. Ludology: My opinion.

July 7th, 2005 · No Comments

Why read my opinion? You’ve read the opinion of everyone else under the sun on interactive storytelling, so why not? So, is it possible? Sure. Will it happen? Yup. Will it be good? Sometimes. Just like any other game, sometimes it’ll be a pain, sometimes it will be amazing, and sometimes it will be completely [...]

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Variety in Games, and How We Lost Creativity

July 4th, 2005 · No Comments

Commercially successful indy film, music, books, and comics all offer a huge variety to the mainstream forms of each entertainment and nearly without-fail have much fewer resources at hand and a higher (or equal) financial bar to clear. And I think the lack of this happening isn’t even a technological impetus, but a problem of [...]

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