Jeff Freeman, also known as Dundee, one of the founders of World of Dreams, died the other day, apparently of suicide. I havent spoken to him in years - shortly after the end of WoD was the last time - but he was a great guy. I learned a lot from him. The world is [...]
My dads hearing has been deteriorating for a while now, to the point where weve now been using closed captioning on the TV. I have to say, Im rather amazed at how badly closed captioning sucks. So often its just awful. I was watching a Bruce Willis movie the other day that kept transcribing completely unimportant [...]
The subtitle of this post is The Corruption of my Mother. You see, shes never really been a gamer. A bit of Pacman and Frogger back in ye olden days. Some Solitaire and Bejeweled more recently. Thats about it. About a year ago, McDonalds had one of their Monopoly games. Theyve gotten a lot fancier than [...]
Drocketville has now reached a population of 5000. Its now growing pretty fast again, after a period of rather slow growth. If anyone is interested, Ive started using a new link exchange program, one that focuses specifically on MyMiniCity - the MyMiniCity click exchange network. Its a lot easier to use than Yarods. All I [...]
Drocketville today hit a population of 3000. Its now the 226th largest city in the USA, in MyMiniCity universe at least. I suppose that would make more sense if each person is supposed to represent 1000 actual people or something, making that a population of 3 million. I dunno. Either way, Im moving up the [...]
You can get the game Burger Rush for free by visiting this link and watching a commercial for Chilis. Apparently this is how Chilis makes their burgers or something. Im not really sure. (Note: it isnt actually a game BY Chilis - theyre just using it for advertising purposes.) It is, however, a relatively [...]
Drocketville continues to grow. Its now up to a population 1500. Commercial buildings are now starting to spring up. Im fairly certain that one of those buildings houses a data server center, mostly likely with 100% guaranteed uptime. I cant help but to wonder what sort of servers are being used in those server centers. [...]
Thats according to NPD. Thats a whole lotta World of Warcraft subscriptions. I was a tad surprised by the number 2 game, Runescape. Who plays Runescape? Lord of the Rings Online is number 3, a well-deserved spot, I think. Final Fantasy XI is number 4, followed by City of Heroes.
Drocketville has finally reached a population of 1000. Now we can start building commercial buildings
Heres an interesting MMORPG development: City of Heroes is going to add a system in which players will be able to generate content which other players will be able to then experience. Actually, content is too broad a word most likely: it seems limited to the creation of missions (which are basically dungeons with storylines), [...]
