From the monthly archives: December 2004

He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice

By On 23/12/2004 ·

Merry Christmas, everybody

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A brief history of cooperation in multiplayer games

By On 17/12/2004 ·

Most early video games, of course, were multiplayer games. Games like Spacewar, Pong and Gunfight, however, were also simple one-on-one games in the tradition of classical board games such as chess. At the formal level, at least, such games do not inspire cooperation since one player’s gain is the other player’s loss.

Following the [...]

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Progress cannot be stopped

By On 16/12/2004 ·

Yes, Ballgame.exe lovers everywhere, the rumours were true. Here’s the new improved version, with flashy graphics, hillarious effects and a staggering 3 megabyte – but remember fans, deep down it’s still the same good old ballgame.exe that we all love so much.

Oh, and there’s a bug (or is it a [...]

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News.com on griefing

By On 15/12/2004 ·

[Via Gonzalo]

Cnet News have a new piece on griefing. It reports that “Now an increasing number of companies are fighting back, using a combination of technology, sociology and psychology to limit griefer damage.”

Now, I think it makes sense to consider many aspects of grief play directly detrimental to the game [...]

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Work of astounding genius

By On 12/12/2004 ·

The fruits of my very first efforts with the Game Maker tool. The development team thanks Troels Folmann for generous audio assistance. Consider it the early gamma version.

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