Rickey's credits include EverQuest and Dark Age of Camelot, and he's now lead developer of one of the Worlds to Watch, Wish. While Dave writes a development-oriented column, "Engines of Creation," at Skotos, he also shares our unfortunate penchant for boring academic discourse as well. Too bad, Dave! But your loss is our gain, and we look forward to Dave's unique ability to connect gaming praxis and theory. Welcome!
Cool to have you here Dave - welcome :)
Posted by: TL | Oct 28, 2003 at 12:30
Augh!
After the Schooner thread I had reconciled myself with the fact that this is a blog for people looking at the present and the future without recourse to any baggage from the past; it's for people looking at virtual worlds objectively from the outside without reference to the necessarily subjective opinions of people on the inside (they even call them "synthetic worlds", for heaven's sake).
Yet now they appoint you as a blogger! An actual, bona-fide, hugely-respected designer! Someone who has already learned the lessons of the past and who speaks authoratively from within the field itself.
What gives?
Richard
Posted by: Richard Bartle | Oct 29, 2003 at 05:28
Richard wrote, "What gives?"
As they say, "There goes the neighborhood." ;)
*grins at Dave*
Posted by: Brian 'Psychochild' Green | Oct 29, 2003 at 19:13
Did I ever mention I don't take praise well? I love to hear it as much the next ego-maniac, but I never quite expect it.
Anyway, my thanks both to you guys, and to the others here for inviting me to participate.
--Dave
Posted by: Dave Rickey | Oct 29, 2003 at 19:20
Can I just say that I've been the holdout all along.
I said that adding Nick Yee was going to ruin our hitherto unbroken run of irrelevance.
I said that if we added TL we'd lose all those people who tuned in each week to watch us thrash about in a stew of our creation.
And I warned them that if we added Dave then all was lost. Serious people would take us seriously.
But did they listen?
Posted by: Dan Hunter | Oct 29, 2003 at 20:26