What concerns me about the games industry at present – one of the things, I should say, or we’ll be here all night ...

Back in the programming period of my career, my most interesting days were when my boss would come to me and ask, “Shamus, ...

Welcome to The Escapist‘s Indie Developer Showcase, a 10-day celebration of the designers and programmers who have struck out on their own to ...

A while back we talked about conflict between players and what sort of a role that it can play in a game and ...

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Player created content comes in a variety of forms. There are, of course, dynamic content systems, such as player-created factions as discussed once ...

Last time we explored one of the major types of factions that exist within a game world – the types that game developers ...

In light of the current ‘political season’, so to speak, I would like to take a look at one area of gameplay in ...

Emerging Content Last time, we took a look at MMO websites and explored why they are important and what can be done with ...

Alright, so far we’ve taken a look at the ways in which players are important in online games and how competition between players ...

One of the most controversial topics you’ll run into with online game development – but certainly far from the only one – is ...

MMOs are games that seem to be very well named. They certainly allow a massive number of players access to a shared online ...