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Kirk Black's Blog

Experience:

18 yr veteran MMO developer

Vision:

"Create Enlightening Interactive Entertainment"

Present

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Runesabre Online - Creator

Past Projects

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Ultima Online - Lead Engineer

Tabula Rasa - Senior Designer

Star Wars Galaxies - Lead Designer

DDO / LOTRO - Technical Director

League of Legends - Technical Director

Kirk Black's Comments

Comment In: 'I think most game designers really just suck' - Richard Garriott [News - 03/20/2013 - 05:30]
I think Richard is a ... I think Richard is a cool guy personally. Great story teller, however, didn 't actually get or really care about MMOs which is what irks me he gets credit for creating Ultima Online and by extension credit for creating the modern MMO genre when he frankly had little to do ...

Comment In: In-depth: A simple system to patch your game content [News - 11/14/2012 - 09:52]
Nice article. I like your ... Nice article. I like your comprehensive, yet, concise coverage of a topic that has a lot of moving parts. The nice thing about loose file patching is you provide an easy, automatic safety net to recover from client-side problems such as corrupted files another reason to forgo delta binary patching ...

Comment In: 7 Ways to Fail at Free-to-Play [Feature - 11/13/2012 - 04:55]
Good point, Kevin. When I ... Good point, Kevin. When I read through the article, my take was that their mindset was don 't be evil common amongst indie developers who are doing it first and foremost for love and passion and didn 't want their players and fans to feel they were contorting the game ...

Comment In: Windows 8 arrives amid serious concerns from PC game devs [News - 10/26/2012 - 04:49]
Linux needs to substantially improve ... Linux needs to substantially improve it 's 3rd party distribution and have a longer-term binary backwards and forwards compatibility vision. This is what made Windows such a strong dominant OS for the past 20 years. I can compile and distribute a binary that just works on nearly every flavor of ...

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