by justingibbs on April 20, 2009
Speaking about casual games at a recent Facebook Developers Garage, Andrew Mayer mentioned that users aren’t innately curious. Seems odd but Mayer mentioned that he’s seen more than his fair share of great content go unseen because users never stumbled upon it. Users need to be lead, more then that they need to be entertained.
Disney Imagineers [...]
by justingibbs on April 12, 2009
Seeing one virtual world after another fail is kind of depressing and really, how much can you learn from failure? It’s not all failure, some virtual worlds like World of Warcraft are thriving. What did WoW do to separate it from the rest of the lot? A strong context is certainly one aspect of its [...]
by justingibbs on August 12, 2008
Apparently WoW is so dominate in the fantasy space that future MMOs are looking for greener pastures to explore.
Sports just makes the most sense. Loads of people like football. At Monumental we want to take national pastimes and make them MMOs – things like fishing or trainspotting. Fantasy is very well serviced. I’d need a billion [...]