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When Roy Trubshaw and I worked on MUD1, we saw it as a means of giving people freedom. For players, freedom to do and to be; for us, freedom to make our imaginations real (well, OK, virtual). Most of the early UK virtual worlds that followed had that same sense of idealism. After our "high ener
The difficult question is this: do virtual worlds (and virtual communities) now have more controls, gates, filters, rules, because a single generation's unique and unreproducible historical experience has become an inflexible structural precedent that defines all future online sociality, that is the
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As part of the preparation for the book on law and virtual worlds that I'm writing, I've been trying to make a comprehensive list of published law review articles and student notes that focus on the intersection of law and virtual worlds. Just in case readers are interested, the current version is a
He's a game designer that gets underneath the covers, really thinking about what makes the game experience unique from other media experiences, and how he can design games that provoke and inspire. Pride, accomplishment and guilt, for instance, are emotions that videogames have the power to evoke in
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Boahn's approach may appear nontraditional, but he feels a new medium calls for a new way of teaching language. Even using the game's English interface gives students a chance to practice what they've learned. "We like to encourage teachers to see 'Second Life' itself as a classroom," he s
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