Koster's Laws Of Online Gaming Revisited

Thanks to F13.net for its article attempting a re-appraisal of the original 'laws of online gaming' document, as first posted by Raph Koster and others starting on October 9, 1998. The curmudgeonly analysis includes rebuttals of original laws such as "No matter what you do, someone is going to automate the process of playing your world" ("There's a very simple fix for this. Dump the treadmill, dump the numbers, and make gameplay fun"), and there's an equally tetchy rebuttal of the rebuttal at F13, suggesting: "Any amount of development time spent making the game more realistic or lifelike is wasted development time, stolen from useful tasks like making the game fun."

Comments

The Automated Online Role-Player

[ksiddique]

This is definitely a fun read about a bot that plays Star Wars Galaxies.

Re:The Automated Online Role-Player

[Chris Mattern]

> about a bot that plays Star Wars Galaxies.

I thought they didn't serve his kind in there.

Wait a minute, no, that's droids.

Chris Mattern

Re:sorry for the flame

[KDR_11k]

If you need a proof:
Aiming can't be that tedious!