http://www.vandercrabben.com Game Designer & Ludologist Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:06:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is no news that Blizzard produces some of the best-selling games ever made. World of Warcraft probably broke every games-related record there is, and Starcraft is still played, ten years after its release. I believe this is due to what I like to call The Blizzard Principle. The way Blizzard ... http://www.vandercrabben.com/?p=42 The game I have been working on for almost three years, Empire: Total War, is finally released. We've already had some amazing previews and reviews, and the response on the forums is really good as well. http://www.vandercrabben.com/?p=28 I have had the pleasure to present a paper on intimacy in MMORPGs at the Intimacy conference at Goldsmiths's College. In essence, I argue that intimacy in MMORPGs is not to be dismissed as play, but rather to be seen as a meaningful form of social interaction. It's generally an ... http://www.vandercrabben.com/?p=30 I just got back from the GAMES 2006 conference in Portalegre, Portugal (a really beautiful place). There I presented my MA Thesis as a shorter paper, examining whether war exists in MMORPG and what we could learn from it. The abstract: Most online games let players fight each other, but this ... http://www.vandercrabben.com/?p=34