Paul Graham has an essay on identity that hypothesizes one source of those never-ending arguments that we’ve all been involved in at one point. I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people’s identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that’s part of their [...]
Also tagged Apple, Microsoft, Open SourceWhen I brought up the term ‘funware’ yesterday, a coworker said something about it not being ‘fun’ and that instead of ‘funware’ maybe it should be called ‘obsessionware’. It has occurred to me that maybe the funware or social gaming phenomenon has more in common with gaming than games.
Also tagged Funware, GamesI’ve been having an email conversation in which I was asked, “I’m curious, as I don’t have a traditional games background, whether you saw the same drivers that web devs follow coming from the executive/business teams of traditional games? I would have thought that there would always have been that pressure from the "accountants"?”
Also tagged Funware, Games[I will use the term funware to distinguish the new genre of 'social games' from what could be called 'traditional games'. It’s not a well-defined term. It's just to make it easier to write this post.] Awhile ago, there was a series of posts in the game industry blogosphere regarding “games people” and “web people”. [...]
Also tagged Company Culture, Funware, Games