Back in the day the F word was almost unheard of when people spoke about online gaming. But as time has gone by the words has become almost common place. And players use it to talk about everything. Some small companies use it all over their websites, and other more serious companies like Blizzard or NCsoft don't use it almost at all in their products.

   There are posts everyday in every single forum with the F word in its header. And there are flashing banners in every website with the word on it.

   When I first saw it I must confess I was truly excited, I was completely sold to the idea and I have even stood by the F word. And later it stopped meaning something cool and turned into something annoying and desperate.  They now use it almost for everything and I think they should use a similar term rather than keep recycling it over and over again.

Nowadays I get mixed feelings when I hear it:

"Oh no, here we go again"

"That's great!"

"F***  really?!"

   Even though the F word is easier to re

Imagination and ideas in motion

To help members seeking a gaming career understand how the industry works and how it is changing.

Current Project

    Right now we are working on our first animated short, it has progressed significantly and we are working steadily towards its completion.

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When you deploy an online game, you will need a server that will process all the world changes, and will provide each client (player) with the static world. When your game program is sloppy, even if there are few people logged in the server there would be lag. There are providers with dedicated servers, they charge around $200 Dlls a month plus a setup fee. For launching a commercial game, it might take hundreds of servers to maintain an even player/server distribution. Imagine the entire 9 million WoW players jam-packed into 10 servers.

Quests

Content sometimes is a reason for debate between players, but nevertheless is a vital part of the role playing experience of your players. Think about what would happen if you made 90% if your quests in the form “Kill X number of Y type of mob and then come claim your reward”, this is where your creative member of the team, or your own creativity plays an important part.

Economy

Trust me, even writing the title of this section made me yawn. Even if you are not a merchant type of player, you will have to deal with the economy balance. I’m certainly not going to going into economy design details, but you have to keep this in mind. Th

Introduction

Through several months of mmorpg forum skimming I've come across the same sentence quite a few times, and since I am an evil minion I believe it is my duty to open the eyes of these players, which I presume are young and did not even mind Googling it at least.

They say:

"I want to make my own games, I want to make something like/better than WoW".

"I want to make games", it almost sounds fun just to say it, but lets face it, it's easier said than done. Well, now that you know why I am writing this, let's get started shall we?

Design

Just like any other Hollywood Movie, game creation starts at the storyboard, here is where the brainstorming begins. First you have to decide what theme is the game going to have, is it going to be a Sci-Fi shooter, a War shooter, an urban thief, or perhaps a fantasy world with huge dragons and titanic castles.

The artists make several sketches, and develop each character. They also design the architecture of the buildings and all the items we find inside a game. The artist then make rotoscopes, these are what 3D artists use as a base to design their models. The basic building block for a model is called a polygon,

MMORPG's Suggestion Forums

These days, going through several mmorpg's official forums, I've come across several "Suggestion" sections. While reading, I have been bewildered by the amount of input players post, I suddenly became interested in this suggestion areas, and then started scouting them more objectively.

Do you want to know what a game is lacking?, then head to the suggestion box.Here I list the 3 main categories I could recognize in the posts, I'm sorry if you are offended, please take it with good humor.

The Designers

From proposing new maps, to transcoding the fantasy game into a Sci-Fi, everything needs a makeover, their main focus is more graphical content because they are bored sick of the same graphics over and over again. The dead end comes when they are playing a game that is no longer under development, usually it's because it is another Korean/Chinese mmorpg that was released a year ago or more.

The Overriders

These guys fire an underwater torpedo to override some game restriction that prevent them for being more powerful, having a better guild or anything of the sort. Moreover, to acquire some virtual good for free that the game is selling for real money.