February 7, 2010 – 7:39 pm
If you haven’t seen the FarmVille satire ad video circulating lately, you should. It’s funny stuff!
(I’m going to be saying that all day now. FARM VILLE! It’s the price of hefty journalistic investigation, I suppose.)
I’d just never thought about it in these terms until we were chattering in the office last week, [...]
October 7, 2009 – 11:11 am
Virtually (ha ha ha, virtually, get it?) all current top-tier online entertainment pundits agree: Social Media is the new In Thing, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. They’re probably right; certainly, nobody pays me to engage in punditry, and they DO profit from their prognostications. My use of social [...]
I’ve said it before, and you can’t stop me from blathering about it again: I’m shamefully hooked on Facebook-style “light RPGs.” But I have one gripe.
I don’t like being hard-blocked by my network size.
I’m a big advocate of leveraging social networks in online games, whether that’s because your game is built to layer [...]
These silly Facebook RPGs are still holding my attention — I mean the likes of Mafia Wars and all. I can even SEE how they’re skins of the same application, and yet, I’m having enough fun to keep playing.
What’s the minimum feature set in an RPG that would keep you playing? I haven’t [...]
In the prosaically-named The Case for Both Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Relationships, post author m3mnoch bravely asserts (without even capitalizing):
the crux of the discussion is what’s better? friends or followers? friends where, through granted requests, you explicitly create a two-way relationship with someone or followers where, by you “following” them back, you create an implicit [...]
