References

From Skycastle

This page is for collecting links to various useful resources.

[edit] Game Design

• I Have No Words & I Must Design - This is a classical analysis on what aspects a game must have to be a game.
• Original MUD-Dev List archives and MUD-Dev2 List - These are discussion forums about game design for amateur and professional designers in the MUD and MMORPG bussiness.
• Deeply Random Thoughts - Insightful blog on game design theory, with a focus on MMORPG/Avatar Games.
• Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDs - Classic paper on player types in MUDs, also applicable to modern-day MMORPGs

[edit] World Generation

• The Virtual Terrain Project has a broad and annotated link collection to various algorithms and papers related to virtual worlds.
• zzorns masters thesis gives an overview of various landscape generation and rendering algorithms.
• Content Is Bad - An article about the advantages (and disadvantages) of procedurally generated game content.

[edit] Researching

• Citeseer is a nice automatic archive of scientific papers, there's a lot of articles published nowdays on topics like 3D rendering, social and emotional agents, etc.