Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 19th Jul, 2007 10:19 pm
Matt Barton at Armchair Arcade is hard at work on a book about the history of computer role-playing games. He recently got a quick interview with Chris Taylor, designer of ridiculously-popular-yet-incredibly-boring computer-based RPG Dungeon Siege. (Obviously that’s IMO. My fellow writer and boyfriend Nick Silversides vehemently disagrees) Do you think the current market emphasis on MMORPGs is destroying the CRPG [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 24th Mar, 2006 2:11 pm
A maven of MMO player research, The Daedalus Project, has posted a new set of results from respondents as well as a new phase of surveys. There is a general survey as well as individual surveys targeting roleplayers and women. You can respond to the MMO surveys here. The results from recent survey phases were posted earlier in the week [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 9th Jan, 2006 8:57 pm
The Daedalus Project has a survey running for current MMORPG players. They’re looking at things like socialisation and in-game pet preferences and also want to hear from current and former guild leaders. If you’re interested in participating, head on over to The Daedalus Project. The survey is linked from the homepage and only took me about 10 minutes to fill [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 12th Nov, 2005 7:01 am
Lots of interesting research on the psychology of MMORPGs is over at the The Daedalus Project, by Nick Yee. “Men are 3-5 times more likely than women to gender-bend in MMORPGs. The demographic that is most likely to gender-bend are men over the age of 25. We know that 85% of MMORPG players are male, so if you do the [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 31st Oct, 2005 12:32 am
I hate having to dig through pages and pages of of an online game's website in order to find out their monthly fee. I'm sure lots of other people do as well, so I'm collecting as many as I can find and posting them here. Let me know what's missing!
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