Comments on: Metaplace – What do you think of it? http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/game_design/metaplace-what-do-you-think-of-it.html Game Design, MUDs, MMOs, and Virtual Worlds Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:05:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Muckbeast http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/game_design/metaplace-what-do-you-think-of-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-3024 Muckbeast Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:43:38 +0000 http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/?p=224#comment-3024 I think the problem is that it hinges completely on user generated content (UGC). The fact is, most gamers make HORRIBLE game designers. Metaplace depends entirely on UGC right now, and that's rough. If they can design good ways for people to find the "good worlds" then that could all change. I think that's one of the key things for Metaplace in the long run. The concept is very cool, and they recently added the ability to play it inside a browser, inside forum software, etc. That's super nifty. I think the problem is that it hinges completely on user generated content (UGC). The fact is, most gamers make HORRIBLE game designers. Metaplace depends entirely on UGC right now, and that’s rough.

If they can design good ways for people to find the “good worlds” then that could all change. I think that’s one of the key things for Metaplace in the long run.

The concept is very cool, and they recently added the ability to play it inside a browser, inside forum software, etc. That’s super nifty.

]]> By: nugget http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/game_design/metaplace-what-do-you-think-of-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-3020 nugget Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:23:40 +0000 http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/?p=224#comment-3020 :( I wanted to like MetaPlace so much, but just found it totally unable to grab me. :( I've logged in about 3 times, I think the last, most recent time was to try Bartle's game of walking from one end to the other of his daughter's room. I wanted to like it because I was a long-time LegendMUD player, and the area Raph Koster built in LegendMUD, is still, imo, one of the finest examples of MUD writing I've ever seen. I think he was the first builder I ever complimented (ok raved to, is more like it) on a quest. And yet... MetaPlace just leaves me totally cold. I find most of the worlds to be... pointless, and it doesn't trip the feeling of 'ooh shiny new exploringness' for me at all. After the first two times, I couldn't even bring myself to log-in for events that the MetaPlace newsletter sent me. Maybe I'm the wrong target audience. :( :(

I wanted to like MetaPlace so much, but just found it totally unable to grab me. :(

I’ve logged in about 3 times, I think the last, most recent time was to try Bartle’s game of walking from one end to the other of his daughter’s room.

I wanted to like it because I was a long-time LegendMUD player, and the area Raph Koster built in LegendMUD, is still, imo, one of the finest examples of MUD writing I’ve ever seen. I think he was the first builder I ever complimented (ok raved to, is more like it) on a quest.

And yet… MetaPlace just leaves me totally cold. I find most of the worlds to be… pointless, and it doesn’t trip the feeling of ‘ooh shiny new exploringness’ for me at all. After the first two times, I couldn’t even bring myself to log-in for events that the MetaPlace newsletter sent me.

Maybe I’m the wrong target audience. :(

]]> By: Outsider http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/game_design/metaplace-what-do-you-think-of-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-3001 Outsider Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:38:49 +0000 http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/?p=224#comment-3001 Sounds pretty cool. I probably would have jumped on something like this a few years ago. Sounds pretty cool. I probably would have jumped on something like this a few years ago.

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