Gaming 2.0

re: Gaming 2.0

Bertrand Le Roy — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:35:00 GMT

Christopher: yes, you're absolutely right. I knew this video but for some reason it didn't register in my mind. Yes, Spore is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. I'll update the post.

re: Gaming 2.0

Christopher Bennage — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:55:00 GMT

Have you heard about Spore? It follows the Gaming 2.0 idea you outlined. User created content plays a significant (and innovate) part in the game. Here's a lenghty video of the game being demonstrated at GDC:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198

re: Gaming 2.0

Bertrand Le Roy — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:31:00 GMT

Stephane: you're answering the Wikipedia article about Web 2.0, not my post, which begins with "think what you want about web2.0". Ignore it if you want. It's not my point.

re: Gaming 2.0

Stephane Rodriguez — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:54:00 GMT

I entirely disagree with the premise of this post.

"The transition of websites from isolated information silos to sources of content and functionality" : the bulk of blogs out there have no RSS feeds to subscribe to.

"This is the community aspect. It consists mainly of user-provided contents " : we are still in phase one where service providers freely give storage and feature almost for free only to reach critical mass. Once the critical mass gets reached, doors will be closed, and blood will follow.

"A more organized and categorized content" : RSS does not solve information overload. It calls for even more information consumption. I have personally switched from 30 minutes a day to 8 hours a day. It's a pathology. I can only remember the good ol' days of Internet over RTC 28.8kb where I would see only a handful of websites before I told myself that I had seen enough. Besides this, today's tools to reading hundreds of RSS feeds are just inapropriate. We certainly need ways to recoup information for us without us doing all the recouping info. In a way get facts without having to play journalists (that's time consuming).

"The resurgence of excitement around the possibilities of innovative web applications" : like what? What is innovative in the web right now? Nothing is done right now that could not be done back in 1998. And for the record, we are seeing rendering stacks like DirectAnimation, HTML+TIME being replaced with WPF/E. How do you call this? I call this a 10-year cycle. Everything old is new again.