Game Breakr interview at Austin GDC
I did this interview for Game Breakr while I was here… a fun conversation! Game Breakr – Raph Koster Interview Austin GDC on Vimeo on Vimeo
View ArticleMatt Sturges live chat today at 2pm
I don’t know if I have raved about Matt Sturges’ work in comics here before. House of Mystery (available in two collections to date: Room and Boredom and Love Stories For Dead People) has vaulted onto...
View ArticleRezEd podcast
I was lucky enough to be part of a podcast for Global Kids’ Digital Media Initiative, the RezEd podcast, alongside Daniel Livingstone and Joe Castille, who are two of the educators using Metaplace. It...
View ArticlePlaying live Halloween concert tomorrow!
A collective of Metaplace users led by the intrepid MacZ have set up a huge Halloween event tomorrow. It kicks off at noon Pacific time in the world Riverbeer with costume contests, art displays, and a...
View ArticleChat with Jesse Alexander of Alias, Heroes, Lost, Day One
I first met Jesse at an event at MIT, where we had a mutual fanboy moment. Now every time his name pops up on a TV screen I get to point it out to the kids. He’s a big thinker on transmedia — the ways...
View ArticleJesse Alexander chat now!
http://www.metaplace.com/TheStage/play Head on through the doors on the second level of the lobby to the stage proper. Edit: event over. Log not yet available, but I will update when it is.
View ArticleMetaplace.com closing
Today we announced that the consumer-facing Metaplace service, the one you all know as the user-generated worlds website at Metaplace.com, is closing on January 1st. There’s a FAQ and an official...
View ArticleMetaplace.com farewell party and concert
To say goodbye to Metaplace.com in style, there’s a party scheduled at noon tomorrow January 1st, probably running all the way until the lights go out at midnight. Please come on by and hang out! I am...
View ArticlePlaydom Acquires Metaplace
Here’s the official press release: Playdom Announces Acquisition of Metaplace — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 8 /PRNewswire/ –. Coverage also popping up in a few more places, like TechCrunch and...
View ArticleISA2011: the M&A panel
This afternoon I was on a panel on mergers and acquisitions in the social games market alongside a bunch of great folks. It was the last session of the day, and they asked me to go “all designery” so I...
View ArticleMMORPG.com interview
I didn’t plan it this way, but we have two interviews on back to back days! This one was for Adam Tingle over at MMORPG.com, and it focuses mostly on MMOs specifically, as you might expect, with a lot...
View ArticleThe Ready Player One MMO was Metaplace
MMORPG.com has an article about a hypothetical Ready Player One MMO. For those who haven’t read it, Ready Player One is a novel by Ernest Cline that describes a network of virtual spaces running on a...
View ArticleVirtual Worlds Are (Not) Folk Music reposted
Periodically I have gotten requests for either audio or video of the talk I gave at Living Game Worlds IV back in 2008. I have the slides, but they aren’t even posted up here, and honestly, without the...
View ArticleConsent systems
I was asked on Twitter recently for references for my mention of “consent systems” in my talk on “What AR and VR can Learn from MMOs.” I didn’t have any handy at the time but today I had some free time...
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