Since I've had the ability to post this blog for a while, I decided it was time to make use of it. One of the areas that I feel gets precious little attention in the MMO gaming world is the proper equipment for the job - everyone plays, but not everyone truly games.

The first, and most important, point of contact between the player and their PC is the mouse. Almost universally, reflex and precision are tested by the mouse; while in the non-gaming world, specialists and consultants...

Vectivus

Design is Functional and Aesthetic

Niels Diffrient rethinks the way we sit down | Video on TED.com

Above is a link to a video by Niels Diffrient, who created the Freedom Chair. The part I find the most compelling is the beginning; Diffrient recounts his childhood love of airplanes - the combination of the physical machine, and the aesthetic experience of being a pilot (the clothes, the women, the airplane, and the physical body of the pilot). In an attempt to capture...

Sovereignty

Talked to Xav a couple weeks ago and asked if he'd be interested in my 3rd Q&A blog entry. He so kindly obliged (sp?) and here we are. I don't want to make each set of questions the same each ~week so I've been juggling some around. I'm also working on finals and am going on 3 hours of sleep since Friday because of a Bachelor party.

In Game:
1. Why do you play a Warrior? Do you feel that the introduction of DKs has fixed "tank shortages" and taken away jobs...

Nayt

I always hated how the older Blizzard icons look, so I made myself some textures to give them style.



Where the f$&# can I use this? Actionbars, buff icons and so on.

Stuff to read:
API Texture SetTexCoord - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
API LayeredRegion SetVertexColor - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
API CreateFrame - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft...

zork

I'm still not playing WoW (at least for the moment anyway), but something's bugging me. It's the [url=http://www.curse.com/Premium/Signup.aspx"new" Curse Client "Premium" subscription[/url]. Launched a few days ago, it takes some of those things that we'd taken for granted from an addon updater and bundles them into a subscription package, with some extra things added in.

The subscription package is understandable. They have to make ends meet, and addon downloads do go through a large...

Binkenstein