0xDECAFBAD - Tag: wow

wow, eve, and delicious

2007-11-21T04:20:14+00:00

Come see me try to write big words on my new blog about what I hope is not a new MMORPG addiction, while I work through the aftermath of this thing having been hacked.

the auction house is the game

2007-01-03T00:53:12+00:00

Free game idea I'll probably never implement, and would hate to maintain if I ever did:

Yendor's Other World (or, YoW) - a cross between IdleRPG / ProgressQuest and the Auction Houses from World of Warcraft. The market is the game, the roleplaying is just the background. Characters quest while you're busy in the real world, and you end up with new items and money when you return to play. Buy, sell, and trade items with other characters. Collect sets of armor to pimp your avatar and show off. Buff your stats so your avatar can finish better quests to get better items and start the whole cycle anew.

But, alas, I don't know anything about auctions or markets, and I don't like people enough in the general case to put up with running an online game unless it made me piles of (actual) money and I never had to answer a support email. :)

Archived Comments

John Manoogian III (jm3)
2007-01-03T04:46:13

plus five mousepad of exalted jerking for coining the phase, "buff your stats"
Mad William Flint
2007-01-03T13:23:29

EvE, I'm tellin ya. The marketeering is awesome.
l.m.orchard
2007-01-03T20:21:14

Well, the thing is, I don't think I'd ever really want to play this game - but it's just been mentioned to me in passing as a "wouldn't it be cool if" by at least 4 people now :)

throttling the basement hacker

2006-10-13T19:19:26+00:00

This might just be a phase, related to my recent injury and subsequent period of convalescence - but I feel like doing absolutely nothing extracurricular hack-wise after work. This is an odd state of mind for me, since I'm normally never happy unless I've got both work and home projects spinning. It's been somewhat satisfying to get work done and code checked in during the day, then home for dinner and some WoW on the couch next to The Girl. I'd kind of like to get into something more soon, but at present I feel no compulsion to hack, mashup, reverse engineer, invert polarity, or anything else of that nature. In fact, I'm doing a small measure of thinking about into what I do want to get once the itch returns. I've got a half-dozen unfinished short stories, and a geographical region full of people to meet. Maybe once the leg works again, I'll not feel like being such a full-throttle basement hacker anymore. This is weird.

Archived Comments

Dean Edwards
2006-10-13T23:38:30

Don't worry. This is perfectly normal. Your brain has gone on holiday for a couple of weeks leaving your body in basic life-support mode. Feed it TV and beer and anything you fancy. Normal service will be resumed in a week or two.
l.m.orchard
2006-10-13T23:44:57

Mmm... beer. Luckily, there's a BevMo within walking distance of our apartment. Er, well, theoretical walking distance anyway.
Mad William Flint
2006-10-14T02:02:59

I've got to be particularly careful as a few hours of MMOs can poison my hackish funkitude for weeks at a time.
l.m.orchard
2006-10-14T03:01:12

I suspect, at least for me, that it's the sense of micro-accomplishment. Move a few bars, finish a few quests, get a ding. Woo hoo! I did stuff! :)
Julian Bond
2006-10-14T19:11:26

Me too.

Loads of 10% time projects and I can't be bothered to work on any of them. My excuse to myself was re-reading 13th Valley but now I've finished it...
Len Lynch
2006-10-15T22:08:13

Aquaintances of mine are going through the same thing... so it should pass. Not that I can brag about GTD, personally in a while now.

Raise a glass, I'm toasting to your speedy recovery!

I did hold my breath for a moment when I read that you relocated out west. Others I've known, were changed in an inexplicable way. They lost something they once had and became more like those they live around. It's difficult to explain.

Is there something in the water, the air, the culture, everything?

If you get any insite into this, please share it.

world of warcraft is my world of warcraft

2006-09-06T19:32:01+00:00

Remember when I wrote that hacking is my World of Warcraft? Well, lately, World of Warcraft has been my World of Warcraft. Yes, that's right: I'm on that slippery slope now. My best friend and Best Man back in Michigan handed me a copy of the game as a going-away present, ostensibly to help keep in touch. So, to recouperate from the book writing, the marrying, the moving, and the new job taking - I've been maintaining laziness on the extracurricular hacking front, and WoW has appeared in the vacuum. I can only hope that I don't next progress into a stage of "Hacking WoW is my Hacking". Smack me if my name starts appearing on this site.

Oh and, by the way, if you happen to see a troll named Paytol on Maelstrom, or a gnome named Fizlfry on Eitrigg - say hi!

Archived Comments

Seth
2006-09-06T23:40:42

Abort! Abort! Pull back! Danger! Danger!

Never played WoW but Oblivion on the 360 sucked me in enough (and a few friends are addicts) so I know that's one door I don't want to open.

Get back to playing The Hulk on the Xbox man!
Adriaan
2006-09-07T04:56:30

I'll try to find you on Eitrigg, I'm Egidius, and maybe get you into Joi's We Know guild?
Kevan
2006-09-07T14:41:32

Excellent. My main is a human rogue on Eitrigg named Sunriseearth, a few alts on the same server.
Pozycjonowanie
2006-10-15T10:13:51

Never played WoW but Oblivion on the 360 sucked me in enough (and a few friends are addicts) so I know that’s one door I don’t want to open.

Get back to playing The Hulk on the Xbox man!