World Theory

Real money trading (RMT) is a result of users being able to organize themselves on the web and selling their in-world assets for real money....

Flash has enabled solo programmers to create games on their own without the backing of a big team. Here are a few I appreciate, all created ...

The term role-acting is a subsitute for the term role-playing , as the latter is more confusing than useful. Different people have differen...

When designing a virtual world you need to consider how the online reality differs from physical reality... This is a list of some of t...

Designers and users are easily annoyed by cheating in their game worlds. This mentality is destructive for the world... There are two ma...

Users of virtual worlds are usually represented in the world in terms of a character and the avatar of that character. Here are my definitio...

Virtual worlds usually have static and dynamic aspects. For pragmatic reasons most online games provide static environments where the gamepl...

The term virtual world can be difficult to grap, therefore a definition is needed... Last update: 2007-06-22T23Z The term virtual world ...

What can you learn about virtual world design from the web-sphere? Game design guru Raph Koster sees a lot of connections . Of which some hi...