playing virtual god
Since joining Microsoft, I have been pretty busy with work and therefore had not much time for this blog. Whenever I have a few minutes, I try to squeeze in some Windows Phone 7 Game Development and I’m planning to write a few things about it in the future…
If you want to be cool, you can also start developing Apps and Games for WP7 using either Silverlight or XNA. Go ahead and give it a try, you’ll love it!
Gaze based interaction could be a gread addition to graphical operating systems (such as Windows 7).
ANNO 1404: Dawn of Discovery was awarded in five categories at this years German Game Developer Award.
It won the audience award for “Best German Game 2009″ and jury awards in the categories “Best German Strategy Game”, “Best Game Design”, “Best Graphics” and “Best Soundtrack”. Since the German Developer Award is regarded as the most important award for developers of computer and console games in Germany, I’m a little proud myself.
Some time after its completion, Tjuhl’s master thesis is garnering some attention by online world researchers at http://virtual-economy.org.
Throughout his thesis, Tjuhl developed a framework and mechanism for an online world economy free of goldfarming. Those pesky goldsellers have become a major annoyance to the players, but also to virtual gods, people and companies that operate and develop online games. While flashing those persons to virtual death with lightning is fun for a short while, at some point it just takes too much time and effort to deal with that nuisance.
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Master of Engineering
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