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About the Technical Reviewers

These reviewers contributed their considerable hands-on expertise to the development process for Designing Virtual Worlds. As the book was being written, these dedicated professionals reviewed all the material for technical content, organization, and flow. Their feedback was critical to ensuring that Designing Virtual Worlds fits our readers' need for the highest-quality technical information.

Matt graduated from Cornell University in 1994 with a degree in Political Science and is a licensed stockbroker. These experiences have informed his game design tendencies and he is an expert on business models, political systems, and community dynamics in virtual worlds. Along with the inevitable interest in games, he spends his free time pursuing Brazilian jujitsu and kickboxing, cooking, travelling, hiking, kayaking, skiing, and scuba diving.

Damion Schubert has been working in online world design professionally for over seven years. He was originally the lead designer of Meridian 59 (and several expansions), as well as the lead designer for the defunct Ultima Online 2. He has also served as a contractor for such projects as The Sims Online and Kalisto's Highlander Online. Currently Damion is serving as a senior designer at Wolfpack, which shipped Shadowbane in March 2003.

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Top Designing virtual worlds TOC Acknowledgments About the Author About the Technical Reviewers Tell Us What You Think Preface Introduction Who Should Read This Book? Overview Chapter 1. Introduction to Virtual Worlds Some Definitions What They Are and Whence They Came The Past Affects the Future The Basics Influences on Virtual Worlds The Designer Chapter 2. How to Make Virtual Worlds Development On Architecture Theory and Practice Chapter 3. Players Who Are These People and What Do They Want? Player Types Other Categorizations The Celebration of Identity Anonymity Role-Playing Masquerading Community Influence Through Design Chapter 4. World Design Scope Major Decisions Geography Population Physics Reset Strategy Chapter 5. Life in the Virtual World Advancement Character Generation The Virtual Body Groups Combat Crafting The Elder Game The Whole Picture Chapter 6. It's Not a Game, It's a? Points of View Making Sense of Virtual Worlds Virtual Worlds as Subfields Virtual Worlds as Tools Virtual Worlds as?Virtual Worlds Conclusion Chapter 7. Towards a Critical Aesthetic A Theory of Virtual Worlds The Story of Story The Critical Aesthetic in Use Chapter 8. Coda: Ethical Considerations Censorship Players as People Groups of Players as Groups of People Yourself Available Categories Adobe Macromedia Programming SQL Server Administration Networking Microsoft Products Mac OS Linux systems Mobile devices XML Misc Available Tutorials A programmer's guide to Java Certification CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide Sun Certified Solaris 9.0 system and network administrator all-in-one exam guide Advanced dba certification guide and reference Data quality. The accuracy dimension Amazon hacks. Tips and tools Basic local alignment search tool (blast) PC hardware tuning and acceleration Fixing Windows Annoyances Designing virtual worlds Digital photography hacks Essential blogging Essential CVS Ebay hacks Content syndication with RSS Paypal hacks PC Hardware HTML & XHTML Practical resource description framework (rdf) Steal this computer book 3 Remember the name: eTutorials.org. Copyright eTutorials.org 2008. All rights reserved. :: анонимно отправить смс