10 things every online game should have. (From blog Imtalkingames) Photo Credit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/; http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotologic/216182916/ Great series of articles, at “clicknothing” by a known game designer, Part 1 and Part 2 (And yes, I don’t understand it all… but thankfully it’s a series… I’m hoping there’s a happy ending at the curtain). Gamer Entitlement, (from a game [...]
Photo: Flickr, from Cornell College Collection, no known copyright restrictions. Huhh, Jun-Sok, An Economic Analysis on Online Game Service (August 28, 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1335120 (A not-quite-so-recent article which talks about the nuts and bolts of running a for-profit game online. )…. a couple more articles after the jump
Report on the lawsuit from “Courthouse News” http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/04/20/26549.htm CNN coverage of Second life class-action over land values http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/10/virtual.property.second.life/?hpt=Sbin Inc. Magazine coverage of the lawsuit http://www.inc.com/news/articles/2010/05/second-life-virtual-land-dispute.html LA Magazine short article http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/30/business/la-fi-lazarus-20100430 Blogger’s article quite skeptical of the lawsuit http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2010/04/bragging-again.html Website ostensibly dedicated to the lawsuit http://www.virtuallanddispute.com/ , with pdf (unverified) of [...]
Once upon a time the pre-eminent development firm for computer games had several top developers. These developers were responsible for a goodly portion of the market for this top firm. And the developers were looking at the dollars they were making, and what the company was making… and weren’t happy. It did not end well…. [...]
I am currently “shopping around” for online and local forums that would like to hear me speak about Gamer’s Rights and how it is changing the conceptions of license agreements and forums rules. Meanwhile, today’s post centers on the great work that other lawyer-bloggers are doing, as well as a few professional papers I recommend you [...]
Just a gentle reminder; I was a gamer a long time before I was a lawyer. Every day I (like many of you) read a lawsuit notice that seems so patently absurd that as a fellow lawyer I wince. Lawsuits that I’m sure 10 lawyers may have turned down before 1 took it. Non-lawyers need [...]
So many links; so many directions. But they are all tied together by students seeking knowledge and educators attempting to reach the masses with important content. Virtual Worlds (116 resources via Educause)Most are from their own magazine but some are from presentations you could find no where else. Plus, did you know there were Education [...]
This is the best definition of “Griefing” that I have found. Buy Mortal Gold calls it ” the act of chronically causing grief to other members of an online community, or rather, intentionally disrupting the immersion of another player in their gameplay.” There aren’t any lawsuits for griefing, or glitches, or general screwball hatefulness that [...]
A listing of Gamers Rights articles in the gaming media. An article on Skewed and Reviewed with ECA president Hal Halpin. I’m not familiar with this Website but the article seemed to be balanced and informative. Nearly a Million X-box users banned from X-box Live, according to an article on Redorbit.com Excellent article about a [...]
What happens to your online world when your real-life world ends? When you give it up by choice, or through circumstances such as disability, or even worse, death? This is not a long, dry exposition on the intricacies of estate law. Heck, there’s not enough case law out there to do a seminar or a [...]
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