by LadySirse on Apr 19, 2007
IMGDC Day One Summary
GamersInfo posted another article from IMGDC today. This one is a summary of day one events.
After the keynote address, the day started for me with a panel on Designing Non-standard MMO's with Standard Tools by Celia Pearce. Celia is an academic researcher who had spent time looking at emergent social behavior in MMO's. One of the games she mentioned most often was Uru, the online version of Myst. In her study, she'd watched how the players would work together to make sense of the world they were playing in.
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