Category Archives: Gaming
EQ2 – Refer a Friend program
So EQ2 has this pretty cool idea going on – Refer a Friend program/promotion, which means that if you get a friend to sign up and subscribe (not just do the trial), both of you benefit. By linking your game accounts together (for this purpose only, I’m sure), anytime you and your friend(s) are grouped […]
Continue readingThe PvP Files: In the Garden of Good and Evil
This is an article I meant to write years ago, back when Grimwell Online was just getting started. It was going to be an ongoing debate about the merits of “good” versus “evil” in online PvP gaming. Obviously I never wrote the article, but as MMOs came and went, I never stopped thinking about player […]
Continue readingFool Me Once…
I wrote this as the origin story for my character in a D&D 3.5 campaign a friend was running. She was a young and rather rude shifter ranger, and this explains why. I needed to write this for the other players, especially after I was extremely rude to a high level aristocrat who’d hired our […]
Continue readingThe PvP Files: Where the Real Gaming Is
One could be forgiven for assuming that the real gaming in MMORPGs goes on inside the virtual worlds created by developers and played by millions of people every day. While it’s true that the endless hours spent logged in to games such as World of Warcraft or Everquest II count as playing the game, it […]
Continue readingGamerGod Graphics
Description: GamerGod.com was a new gaming news portal site started in 2005. I was brought on staff to be a graphics artist and help work on the layout of the site (seen in this post). News articles and commentary had featured graphics for the main portal page as well as individual section pages. These are […]
Continue readingGamerGod Gaming Portal
Description: Gaming news and fansite portal. The site featured a main hub page along with sub-pages for console gaming and several fansite pages for online games. URL: Offline Features: Custom graphics and layout. Completed: 2005 – 2006
Continue readingThe PvP Files: Breaking the Game
How the use of mods and add-ons affect online gaming The use of mods and add-ons is very prevalent in online gaming today, whether or not the game designers permit it. These programs range from the simple (Teamspeak overlay add-on that allows you to see in game who is speaking) and usable by anyone to […]
Continue readingThe Thrill of the Kill
Virtual kill that is, as in online gaming PvP. I worked from home yesterday because of a dentist appointment in the morning. My work commute is too damn long for me to be able to schedule appointments and get downtown in the same day. So I came home instead. And since it was also a […]
Continue readingFamiliarity breeds surprising results?
You’ve probably heard the phrase “familiarity breeds contempt.” It usually means that once you become too familiar with something, you eventually begin to feel contempt for it, and no longer consider it worth your time. For gaming, I always assumed that the more familiar you get with a game, the easier it is to play. […]
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