Links for 25-10-2007

by on 24 October, 2007 - 23:54

After the jump, as they say. There's Gamasutra, Nick Yee and some other stuff.

Gamasutra: Shaping your community. What films did, games must do(In which LOTR/the film industry and Halo/Bungie Studios are put together for an analysis steaming from a decent idea.)

"Whilst games development is
not identical to film production, it does share much of the same enthusiastic
public response. Consequently games can appropriate some of the communication
and community-building techniques employed by their celluloid older
sibling. Games too can gain popularity and consumer ownership by opening
their previously closed development processes to increased public involvement."

The Daedalus Project - Status reversal(In which something you probably suspected is put in charts [like the one below].)

Henry Jenkins weblog - Producing the CSI:NY/Second Life Crossover: An Interview with Electric Sheep's Taylor and Krueger(In which you learn more about the subject in the title.)

Business Model Adaptation: Digital Distribution(In which Darren Herman shares some thoughts on digital distribution.)

WSJ: Marketers explore new virtual worlds(In which it's once again pointed out that jumping on the media overhyped SL bandwagon hasn't been the best choice for all the little sheep doing it and that there are a lot of alternatives you should be looking into.)

All good reads, I promise.

Cheers.