I’m not a fan of using images when words would do, but in this case I feel it’s warranted: Child’s Play, if you’re not aware of it, is a charity that gives video games, books, and toys to children’s hospitals. Any child unfortunate enough to be stuck in a hospital over the holiday season is […]
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The Most Successful Loot Systems
A friend recently asked me an offhand question about zero-sum dkp systems with a 25% monthly degeneration with a weird main/alt policy… and I could immediately rattle off the strengths and weaknesses of such a system, including where it could be subverted and where the likely problems would be down the road. Ok, so it […]
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Bad Character Names
You’ve got a new character for a big massively multiplayer game, so you need a name. How do you come up with a good name? Good question! I might write about that another time. This is a list of what people do wrong. It was written with both a genero-fantasy setting and a standard English […]
Swâpped Letters in Namês
In these wonderful online games, the longer one single namespace exists, the fewer the names available in that namespace. At some point, all the good names are going to be taken. What then? Gúess.