Mar 10 2007

MusicTonic

Categories: Life Tags: markdangerchen @ 5:42 am

MusicTonic

A web mashup for music images and videos categorized by genre.


Mar 08 2007

divided loyalties in WoW?… and Jade Empire and papers!

Categories: Academia, Games, Games Research, Life Tags: markdangerchen @ 11:15 am

So, two weeks ago I worked my ass off to get a key made in World of Warcraft so that I could go with a group of people from an allied guild to a 10-man dungeon known as Karazhan. I was invited because apparently the server was lacking in 70 rogues at the time (who the people in the guild like… ). Anyway, after many hours working on it, we finally went for the first time last week (Friday and Sat nights). And it was fun!

Buning Crusade instances attunement

But to get there, I basically had to outrun some of my own guildies who were also working on getting keyed and solo/stealth some of the steps instead of waiting for them. Now a week later, some of them are still working on it and more are catching up to where they are. In a few more weeks, there should be enough people in my guild to go. Then I’ll have an interesting decision to make. Do I ditch the allied guild for my own guild? How permanent was my invite to the group, anyway? How will players from both guilds take my seemingly loose loyalties? Or is it a non-issue given that I was available and helped our allies and have always said that I prefer in-guild raids? We’ll see…

The past couple of days, I’ve also been playing a lot of Jade Empire. I’ll write a review soon. But I’ve also been writing papers and such for the end of quarter and now need to work on a book chapter with Lisa!


Mar 08 2007

I was quoted in the local paper last week!

Categories: Academia, Games Research Tags: markdangerchen @ 10:54 am

I was interviewed about Second Life and MMOGs a few weeks ago.  The story came out on the front page of Monday, Feb 26th paper, but, like a dork, I didn’t post this tidbit to my blog.  :P

The internet version isn’t as cool because it isn’t on the front page with a quote from me in big bold letters starting the story off.  But here it is anyway…

Second Life enjoys perks, problems of population boom on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer