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• Combining videos and high resolution photos

  This isn’t exactly AR and I bet it doesn’t run in real time, but it still looks like science fiction to me. Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo. Via Andrew Chen. Read More... Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 7:54 PM from Joe Ludwig’s blog | 0 Comments

• Star Wars, Burgers, and MMOs

  Star Wars has a long history in the MMO genre. I’m not actually sure what the first Star Wars MMO was, but there were/are multiple Star Wars-themed text-based MMOs (also called MUDs for those of you just tuning in) going back to the early 90s. In 2003, of course, Star Wars: Galaxies was released and [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:26 AM from The Forge | 0 Comments Filed under: Uncategorized

• Senile or Hypocritical - You make the call

  “In the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations.” - John McCain. Just the kind of guy this country needs as its next President: Someone either so senile he forgets that his own nation has already invaded two countries in the 21st century, or someone so hypocritically arrogant as to believe that such statements shouldn’t apply [...] Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:10 PM from The Forge | 0 Comments

• World of Philosophyquestscape: Clash of the Paradigms

  Massively posted a question asking what IP and what developers people would love to see team up together. Scanning the initial answers in the thread, most are what you’d expect: stuff like Mechwarrior (awesome), GI Joe (lame), Dragonriders of Pern (probably awesome, but I’m not a personal fan). My favorite suggestion is definitely that Raph [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:34 PM from The Forge | 0 Comments Filed under: Uncategorized

• This is why I’m a programmer

  Gustavo Duarte sums it up. Read More... Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 12:51 PM from Joe Ludwig’s blog | 0 Comments

• I Want A Lightsaber, Damn It

  Not happening anytime soon, of course, but this is surely the next best thing. In brief: It’s an add-on to the Wiimote that will allow for nearly 1:1 motion. Sword/lightsaber fighting ahoy! Despite my general lack of excitement over the Wii, this announcement has definitely perked me up regarding the little white box. Read More... Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 4:27 PM from The Forge | 0 Comments Filed under: Uncategorized

• Howard Stringer Makes Funny

  “I’ve played a Nintendo Wii. I don’t see it as a competitor. It’s more of an expensive niche game device.” I don’t actually like the Wii from the perspective of myself as a games player, but that’s not because I’m too mainstream for it or whatnot. I’m more of a 360/PS3/PC gaming guy because I’m into [...] Read More... Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 9:55 AM from The Forge | 0 Comments

• Runescape Gets Huge Update

  Runescape, arguably the most popular MMORPG in the Western world, launched probably the largest single update in its venerable existence today, overhauling the website and launching a new high-detail visual mode that shows off the fact that Jagex has updated effectively every asset in the game. They’ve also added a much-desired full-screen mode and chosen [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:44 AM from The Forge | 0 Comments Filed under: Uncategorized

• The Ongoing Influence of MUDs

  Great post here by Raph, countering some claims by some newer developers that MMOs don’t owe as much to text MUDs as most of us might suggest. Raph says it, but I’ll repeat him: Graphical MMOs are generally a step (or multiple steps) backwards in terms of features when compared to the best text MUDs. Read More... Posted Sunday, June 29, 2008 1:35 PM from The Forge | 0 Comments

• Proud to be a Californian

  Today, as California enters into the modern age by recognizing marriage between a man and a man or a woman and a woman, I find myself quite proud of it. Go California. Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:37 AM from The Forge | 0 Comments Filed under: Uncategorized

• Achaea ranked #1 text MUD/MMO

  I know I haven’t posted at all lately and shame on me for popping my head out of a rock to post a self-congratulatory message about an Iron Realms game, but I’m going to do it anyway. It’s fairly rare for gaming magazines/sites to pay any attention to the continued existence of text MUDs so [...] Read More... Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 8:50 PM from The Forge | 0 Comments

• Scaling on a Dime at ION

  I spent the week at the ION game conference. The first of my two speaking parts was a panel on scaling your development effort. Darius live-blogged the thing. Read More... Posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 2:07 PM from Joe Ludwig’s blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Uncategorized

• Getting Feedback

  Andy Brice recently posted on getting feedback from software customers. With Pirates, our options are similar but somewhat tweaked. We host our own forums for our user community to hang out on. On most MMOs about 10% of the player base actually uses these, Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:33 AM from Joe Ludwig’s blog | 0 Comments

• MMOs/Virtual Worlds Among Most Valuable Private Web Companies

  Silicon Alley Insider is attempting to rank the most valuable private web companies in the world. The list is of note to this blog largely because it contains a number of entries that are MMO/Virtual World-based. (of course, please note that as these are private companies and as Silicon Alley Insider has no privileged access [...] Read More... Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 3:35 PM from The Forge | 0 Comments Filed under: Uncategorized

• September 12th

  Ok, maybe not the best (I put freerice in the top slot as it actually accomplishes something) but I think September 12th is one the best so-called ’serious’ games I’ve played, despite its claim that it’s not a game. The mechanics are dead-simple and the game doesn’t need a bunch of explanation to illustrate the [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:41 PM from The Forge | 0 Comments