http://suttree.com Beatniks with better clothing, casual games development Fri, 09 May 2008 17:31:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back from speaking at FutureSonic and gawping at Gamecamp. At FutureSonic 2008 I managed to talk about many of the things that I've written about, including games I've written like Jewel Thief, surveillance blogging such as Pigeon blogging and the distributed brain power of Human computation Meanwhile, PMOG is getting busier and ... http://suttree.com/2008/05/09/summer-of-pmog/ PMOG is in private beta now, we're inviting users and responding to feedback. If you want to play, drop me a line. Come February, I'll be in Oakland and San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference (where PMOG will be officially demoed), among others. If you want to chat about massively ... http://suttree.com/2008/01/27/pmog-on-tour/ Outside the last two posts, you can find some of my more passive gaming thoughts over on Passively Multiplayer. Here's a taste of what I've been thinking about: On Askville and Questville: Askville is a friend question-and-answer website, that fits in with the idea of a ‘playful web’ that many people are ... http://suttree.com/2007/11/27/passively-multiplayercom/ Recently, I posed the question of who would I have in my fantasy newspaper. It's still a nameless affair, but the overriding motto is one of 'Culture, Media & Sport' and I'm sorely tempted to put sport on the front pages, politics and murder on the back (hint - the ... http://suttree.com/2007/11/19/the-fantasy-in-fantasy-newspaper-editor/ Sick of the Guardian, sick on news in general. It's all significantly out of date as soon as it's printed, and a combination of BBC news, Google news and special interest websites (football365.com, slashdot.org, thedailyshow.com, etc) provide just as good alternatives. Combine this with iPods, Zunes, Nintendo DS's, iPhones, Nokia N800s, smart ... http://suttree.com/2007/10/29/fantasy-newspaper-editor/ "The next real literary 'rebels' in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions ... http://suttree.com/2007/05/28/over-over-2/ Justin has been hard at work, making a PMOG badge for every player in the game. It's a simple thing for anyone to install, just a javascript include, no doubt we'll complexificate it later. As always, it's alpha code, and as the site says, "that means it probably won't work. If ... http://suttree.com/2007/05/16/i-can-has-pmog-widget/ Thanks Alice, thanks Phil! http://suttree.com/2007/05/15/passively-multiplayer-3/ There's a renewed interest in Gaia Online, which is interesting to observe. Gaia has been around for a long time, so when the meme that casual and massively multiplayer games could be the next big thing, Gaia gets put in the spotlight as an example of a Casual MMO that ... http://suttree.com/2007/05/14/gaia-online/ Tabbed browsing in Firefox, Opera and IE is now a standard. My first experience of tabbed browsing was with one of the early betas of Firefox. It made a huge difference to being able to browse the web casually, leaving pages open to return to later, aiding the idea of ... http://suttree.com/2007/05/08/breaking-out-of-tabs/