Developing Online Games Book Reviewed

Posted by simoniker on Thursday June 26, 2003 @03:05AM from the how-to-master-online-disasters dept.

Thanks to Frictionless Insight for putting up a review of Jessica Mulligan and Bridgette Patrovsky's new book, Developing Online Games, a New Riders-published title written by two veteran MMO creators. The review mentions, in particular, that "..the central theme, the nail-it-to-your-face, tattoo-it-on-your-forearm message of Developing Online Games is that persistent world (PW) games, like EverQuest, aren't a product, they're a service. It is a failure to understand this unassuming statement that has caused such trouble for the PW genre." There's also an excerpt from the book available on the FI site. Update: 06/26 15:29 GMT by T : Here's Peter Wayner's review of this book from April.

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Imagine a beowulf cluster... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-26 03:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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