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MetaverseU: my panel with Cory Ondrejka, Howard Rheingold

Metaverse U conversation: Raph Koster, Cory Ondrejka, Howard Rheingold – Massively Edit: also at MPOGD.

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(Tuesday) Mailbag: forum posters, churn, betas

Mr Koster, I am wondering if you can help me with a bit of online Mythbusting? I have an interest in statistics with relation to gamers and beta testers. This quote: “Something like 90% of the people...

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Some misc links

Oh look, another 3d engine in Flash. EA and Hasbro have gotten around to launching a legit Scrabble on Facebook. But Scrabulous appears undaunted. Once in a long ago, I half-heartedly suggested to...

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Designing for community

Yeah, yeah, I’m writing about this again. Tobold’s got a post on community in MMORPGs. We can’t get to a really better community, where all the goodwill is felt from the bottom of the heart, without...

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Marketing

Warning: giant (4700 word) post on basic marketing principles, prompted by some recent discussion on a forum about what makes for a well-retaining game. A lot of folks, especially in social, seem to...

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The best game design articles on the site

This is post #2,342 on this blog (not counting the dozens of articles, snippets, and presentations not in the blog database)… yet more of the over a quarter-million words written here since the site...

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Wikipedia is a game

The tl;dr version is “go here for the talk.” This past week I was in London, attending Wikimania 2014. Many thanks to Ed Saperia and the organizers for inviting me to speak, it was a highly...

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Social media is broken

Thinking on Wil Wheaton’s well-intentioned essay, here are some things that we know. Anonymity is usually problematic. But the real issue isn’t anonymity. It’s actually “lack of persistent identity.”...

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GDC: Community Management in the Culture Wars

This morning, Gordon Walton, Rich Vogel and I presented our talk on “Community Management in the Culture Wars.” I realized as we started that the last time the three of us were on stage together at GDC...

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Video of “Community Management in the Culture Wars”

The GDC Vault has posted up one hundred and forty free videos from GDC 2015. Holy Cow, almost as good as being there. Among them is the talk that Rich Vogel, Gordon Walton and I presented on “Community...

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Slides for “Still Logged In,” my GDC talk

I have put up a page containing both a slideshow and a PDF download of the talk I delivered on Friday at GDC 2017. I think it came out a bit more somber than I had anticipated, certainly more somber...

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Video of my GDC talk “Still Logged In”

Well, I just watched it, and yeah, I was grim and pulled no punches. Video is now linked on the page for the talk, or you can go watch it for free on the GDCVault. Or here: Still Logged In: What AR and...

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Best practices for community engagement

I’ve written endless words on this in the past, but sometimes you just need a cheat sheet. Particularly these days when people who aren’t community professionals find themselves on the front lines out...

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