Unbelievably, WorldIV is now ONE YEAR OLD! Yippee! In celebration, all commenting services are now free of charge!* Yes, you heard right, our very first post was thrust by Tuebit upon an Internet that was simultaneously agog, aghast, and all quivery inside, just WAITING for two more unsolicited pundits!

*OK, they were already free of charge…

Of course, there’s plenty of fun that everyone got to miss. For instance, there’s our very first banner, drawn freehand by yours truly, which (fortunately) saw the light of day for mere days while the site was still parked…

Then there’s our riveting initial layout…

The articles themselves have evolved over time. We began quite analytically, tackling such MMO-shattering issues as Identity, Storytelling, and Indies vs the Big Boys. Tuebit produced what is still the only downloadable game on this site: the card game of Twobit as an experiment in combat design.

Somewhere (and it’s hard to say exactly where), WorldIV took a turn for the sillier. Of course, sometimes this led to excellent posts garnering discussion from other corners of the blogMMOsphere. We probably never recovered from this new bent… There’s still plenty of offbeat analysis, only now the posts read more as if humans wrote them and not narcissistic robots.

There’s so much more I could blather about… I did a two part analysis of my first attempt at writing some game music (mp3, 3.53 MB). We poked fun and flames at the industry, games, players, ourselves, and probably dozens of other directions that don’t spring to mind immediately. I could keep rambling onwards, but instead I point you, Kind Reader, to the Search, Categories, and Archives of our sidebar. Congratulations to Tuebit for continuing to bear with this experiment. And keep reading to find more of our plans, ambitions, and of course our engrossing predictions, predilections, caricatures, and creations…