By taking a look at recent social game statistics, editorial opinion pieces, and Richard Bartle's classic "Players Who Suit MUDS," I search for ways social games can expand and evolve into more meaningful experiences for a wider range of players.
If you're in school and looking to be a game designer, and you avoid programming classes because you think you may not like it, you are doing yourself a huge disservice. After the talk, even Fortugno told me that he tells his students at Parson's to learn programming. There's no ...
Totally agreed on number 3. In a draft of this post, I had a whole paragraph dedicated to how much RockYou was trying to manipulate the data to somehow imply social gamers were already competitive and young and male, when in fact their own numbers support the opposite claims.
I enjoyed the post Adam, and after just reading it a second time, I feel like you're totally warranted in being as passionate as you want regarding how designers treat our TUDs. It also somewhat reminded me of a story I once heard regarding Warren Spector I think... amongst a ...
