Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I just watched a couple of videos about sandbox vs themepark games (in particular one by NerdSlayer and another by Josh “Strife” Hayes )… One thing that struck me about the ways players often talk about this (because at this point the history is so old) is that people think of sandbox as the older version of MMOs, and themeparks as newer.

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Sandbox Simulation Content Scripting 64

Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

Players typically interact with the environment and other characters in order to solve puzzles containing clues to advance in the gameplay. Role-playing Games (RPGs) Role-playing games are one of the most immersive and content-rich games one can play. Some of the best RPG games are Skyrim, Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3.

Racing 63

Racing Simulation Puzzle Fighting 63

Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The biggest news items of the year are Meta losing $15 billion in trying to build a metaverse and the collapse of FTX , which hopefully but not likely is the last gigantic crypto collapse we see ( Binance is reportertly struggling as well). We did call out AppLovin as the biggest winner of 2021 applauding their content fortress strategy.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. It’d sure be nice to resolve that!

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