EQ: The Tower of Frozen Shadow

No, I totally don’t like this screen shot. My only excuse is this is the only one I took!…

July 10, 2008 · 3 min · 446 words · Tipa

The new Wizardling...

It’s not the “perfect” MMO, but it’s definitely different enough to make it worth a look. Deck-building, strategic card-playing, turn-based combat? Check. Automatic grouping? Check….

July 10, 2008 · 1 min · 82 words · Tipa

Vanguard and the Anti-Map

Not a lot of time here, but I did want to talk about some recent adventures in Vanguard. After completing the Veskal’s Keep quests (including…

July 8, 2008 · 2 min · 419 words · Tipa

EQ2: We don't want RoK v2.0

Lars over at MMOment of Zen just got to 80 in EQ2, managing eventually to finish the entirely solo, quest-driven run from 70 on that…

July 7, 2008 · 1 min · 192 words · Tipa

EQ2: Flittering furtively

I haven’t blogged about EQ2 in about a month from never. Not because I haven’t been playing it – I have – but just because…

July 7, 2008 · 5 min · 861 words · Tipa

MMO Gene Sequencer momentum builds...

Raph Koster today posted an article proposing that the reason people flock to games similar to ones they have already played is because they have…

July 2, 2008 · 4 min · 668 words · Tipa

Sequencing MMO DNA

I just had a thought, while writing the Mythos article. We all know where Mythos came from. Diablo II game play with a Warcraft art…

July 1, 2008 · 2 min · 394 words · Tipa

Exploring the Overworld in Mythos

As is way too often the case, I start writing a story about a MMO for Massively, and then get drawn into the game. Such…

July 1, 2008 · 3 min · 437 words · Tipa

Being Lord Nagafen

We’ll talk about this picture in a little bit :)…

June 28, 2008 · 4 min · 805 words · Tipa

Word Clouds, EverQuest and Levels

I found this cool little app over at Wordle that takes a bunch of text you throw at it and makes a decorative tag cloud…

June 16, 2008 · 2 min · 402 words · Tipa