Quick list games-related info
A friend of mine recently asked me for a list of blogs, books, and other resources on game design, social gaming, virtual goods, etc. I wrote up a quick e-mail, and thought I’d publish it here as well.
A friend of mine recently asked me for a list of blogs, books, and other resources on game design, social gaming, virtual goods, etc. I wrote up a quick e-mail, and thought I’d publish it here as well.
If anyone has interesting stuff to add, please shoot me a note at voodoo [at] gmail!
I have not found much on the metrics of the games industry, particularly on the virtual economies side. That’s definitely one area I’d like to learn more about…
MMOG and virtual world blogs:
- Virtual World News
- Massively
- Terra Nova
- Virtual Economics
- Virtual Economy
- Free to Play
- PlayOn from PARC
- Worlds in Motion
Individual blogs:
- Jeremy Liew (Lightspeed)
- Dan Cook (Seattle game designer)
- Daniel James (CEO of Three Rings – Puzzle Pirates & Whirled)
- Sean Ryan (CEO of Meez)
- Nabeel Hyatt (CEO of Conduit Labs)
- Erik Bethke (CEO of GoPets)
- Nick Yee (Stanford researcher on virtual worlds)
- Justin Smith (Inside Social Games)
- Damion Schubert (MMOG designer)
Books:
- Designing Virtual Worlds (New Riders Games)
- Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
- Massively Multiplayer Game Development (Game Development Series)
- Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, and Playtesting Games (Gama Network Series) (Gama Network Series)
UPDATE: added a couple new links. There’s more on Mike Gowen’s blog here.