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Game Influences (2/6): WeeWar

over 2 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
This is part two in a series on games that influenced my design for a web game. WeeWar is a turn-based strategy game for 2-6 players. Starting a game...

The Farming Genre

over 2 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
I mentioned I have a rant about how I think of most browser-based games as belonging to genre called “farming games”. The defining characteristic is...

Game Influence (1/6): Ikariam

over 2 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
This is the first in a six-part series. I’m going to introduce you to six games and walk you through how they’ve influenced the design process of my...

As Difficult as Possible

over 2 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through...

The Game Industry

almost 3 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
This is a game for 2 - 2,000,000 players of all ages. It should last anywhere from here to eternity (average one hour). I don’t understand the video...

DreamHost Will Break This Blog

almost 3 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
I got mail from DreamHost two days ago telling me that sometime after 9 hours from now they’ll be moving my user and mail accounts from the server they...

Intention and Design

almost 3 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
The recently-sorta-released MMORPG Darkfall is having trouble with players macroing (running programs that play their characters to build up characters...

ListLibrary.net UI Design

almost 3 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
I wanted ListLibrary.net to have a really nice user interface for browsing and reading mailing lists at length. The design leans towards terseness: get...

A Spine of Trust

almost 3 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
I first got the idea for the web game I’ll be working on when I was at a company that was an unhealthy environment: I worked at a startup with an...

Announcing ListLibrary.net

almost 3 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
ListLibrary.net is officially launched. I built a site to read mailing list archives because of the list MUD-dev. It’s a high-quality, all-signal discussion...