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	Game Neverending - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Game Neverending (GNE) was an innovative massively multiplayer computer game that was in development from 2002 until it was cancelled in 2004.
		Game Neverending was an atypical roleplaying game primarily based on social interaction and object manipulation.
		The official in-game currency was shekels, but sheets (and quires and reams) of differently colored papers also served as a de facto currency.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Game_Neverending (323 words)

	Forum Thread : Neverending game... :. GarageGames
		The idea being instead of developing for a year or more to release a game and hope people will find it interesting enough to drop $30-50 bucks on to release 1 level at a time for a small fee.
		What it does is allow people to play the game for as long as it holds their interest without a $40 investment and hoping they will enjoy it.
		But take into consideration the mod factor--if it's moddable and it's not difficult to mod it, you're going to have to adjust the entire 'plan' you have for generating ongoing profit; if people can make their own continuation of it, they won't be motivated to buy the next installment.
	www.garagegames.com /mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=28274 (2880 words)

	Game Neverending (kottke.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		An alpha release of Game Neverending is nearly ready for your game** play (sign up to get an alpha tester account).
		On its face, GNE is a "web-based massively multiplayer online game of social, political and economic interactions", but once it gets going, it'll be hard to tell where the game stops and where real life begins.
		Within this weblog, this entry belongs in the Games categories and was published in September 2002.
	www.kottke.org /02/09/game-neverending (311 words)

	Flickr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flickr proved a more feasible project and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved.
		Early incarnations of Flickr focused on a multiuser chat room with real-time photo exchange capabilities called FlickrLive for sharing photos; the successive evolutions focused more on the uploading and filing backend for individual users and the chat room was buried in the site map.
		It was eventually dropped as Flickr's back end systems evolved away from the Game Neverending's codebase.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flickr (937 words)

	Get Real: The Game Neverending: an IM Community
		I was contacted earlier this week by Stewart Butterfield, the visionary behind Ludicorp and that start-up's massively parallel role-playing game-in-progress, The Game Neverending.
		In the meantime, he has enlisted a seemingly fanatical group of beta testers who are working hard to smooth out the communication infrastructure for the complex and highly social (and neverending) game that Stewart and company envision.
		But for both sorts of groups, the Game supports group presence: associated with the group information is an icon that presents a 'completion bar' icon -- like the one used for installing software -- that indicates the number of online group members relative to the overall number.
	www.corante.com /instant/archives/000379.html (426 words)

	Bengal: Game of Gods, Puzzle Games - Shockwave.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		I personally love this game and like the fact that it is not as difficult as some other games of this type (e.g.
		I like the game and thank goodnes I am not the only one that is tired of all the complainers.
		It's a good game of this type, but has a poor design in that my eye automatically goes to the next ball instead of the current ball and I misfire often.
	www.shockwave.com /gamelanding/bengalgamegods.jsp (925 words)

	Interview with Siggi Kögl
		The company was founded in 1996 by myself with a team of five members (designers, software developers) and received DM 4,5 million venture capital backing in 1997, establishing a solid base from which to launch itself into the interactive entertainment marketplace as well as into the game-developer business.
		The game is not linear, although it doesn't branch out into different games and outcomes.
		The game is set and the gamer can snoop around in different sequences and everyone will have a unique personal experience of the game, since these three factors of time, space and conditional events are complementing each other and making it virtually impossible to have the same walkthrough twice.
	www.justadventure.com /Interviews/Siggi_Kogl/Siggi_Kogl_Interview.shtm (1475 words)

	Terra Nova: Game Design Atoms
		Similarly, there are people who are very good at analyzing/understanding games who can't code their way out of a wet paper bag because they're able to grasp the themes of game design, even if it's hard to put those themes into a language that others can always understand.
		If you think that games are about a series of interesting choices, then the notation needs to show what potentially-interesting choices the player has, and the interesting events that results from those choices, as well as what the player expects from the choices...
		Video games are intimately tied to the technical details thereof; ignoring that fact, or ignoring the knowledge that other people have accumulated because it isn't "human" enough, is to blind yourself to the truth.
	terranova.blogs.com /terra_nova/2005/03/game_design_ato.html (14267 words)

	On Site - a game of two halves
		A component is any item that is part of a game, such as a game character, a level of the game or even a light or a sound source.
		The Game Composer and the RTS support a script language based on the C syntax, although it is event-oriented and works in a manner that will be familiar to Visual Basic developers.
		However, a game designer doesn’t need programming skills in order to create attractive levels with the Game Composer - one of the core aims of discreet monsters is to provide an infrastructure in which scripting is not mandatory.
	www.dnjonline.com /articles/onsite/discreet.html (2326 words)

	Irish Times Article - Reality the new hook for next Web game generation
		Or at least, that's what the programmers of the Game Neverending (GNE) told their beta-testers, as they shut down their prototype website in preparation for its proper, subscription launch in the summer.
		Their single-player game The Sims gave computer owners the chance to manipulate and spy upon a simulated neighbourhood of suburban families.
		And Game Neverending's escape from the medieval world of the MMORPG to its more meritocratic, light-hearted world may send it into the mainstream, but will its world be glamourous enough to keep their attention?
	www.ludicorp.com /press/irish_times_gne.html (1015 words)

	O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2003
		This session examines the implementation of social software in the context of games and the lessons learned in the design and development of the Game Neverending in particular.
		On the other hand, people flock to play massively multiplayer games and the implementation of what would might seem too risky for our "real life" identities and relationships can be played out inside of a virtual world.
		While any given game might have critical mass issues of its own, inside the game world everyone participates in the social software systems since that is part of the game.
	conferences.oreillynet.com /cs/et2003/view/e_sess/3618 (236 words)

	Breath of Fire III Original Soundtrack : SoundtrackCentral.com
		This is not surprising, especially when we have game companies such as Square and Enix that fill their RPGs with plenty of orchestrated and/or classical styles of music.
		An exception, however, is the soundtrack to Capcom's RPG "Breath of Fire III", through which the listener is treated to some of the jazziest music to ever be heard in a video RPG.
		"Neverending Game" is a swinging, fast-paced arrangement, complete with a muted trumpet and improvised piano melodies.
	www.altpop.com /stc/reviews/bof3ost.htm (370 words)

	Caterina.net: Games & GNE Archives
		One of the reasons we started Ludicorp to build the Game Neverending, was my addiction to Neopets, where I was making a killing arbitraging JubJub hats (until the bottom dropped out of the whole JubJub market, as suddenly and inexplicably, JubJub hats were being fed into the marketplace at an astonishing rate).
		The thing that makes these games interesting is watching the dynamics of the rule sets, their sometimes unexpected outcomes, and playing different strategies to see the outcomes.
		The End of the World at the Game Neverending prototype occured at 12:05 AM PST, and it was an amazing event.
	www.caterina.net /archive/cat_games_gne.html (2341 words)

	Ludus Perpetuus: A GNE Fanzine - On the Evolution of Socially Responsible Play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Outis has played the Game Neverending since late October 2002 and is curator of the GNE Anagram Archive.
		As an Alpha-tester for The Game Neverending, I invested many hours in the exploration of a virtual world comprised of a network of hubs and lots, interacting with faceless characters and surreal objects that occupied this place.
		Newbies continued to trickle into the game as time passed, and it seemed to many Old-Timers that the incessant immigration destabilised what they had come to think of as their own, special culture.
	www.paperlane.net /ludus/2003/06/196.html (2310 words)

	Diary of a Die Hard Fan - Thoughts and musings from a guy in Section 133. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		I really had hoped that at this time I would be watching this game knowing that the Series would be coming to Arizona for game 3.
		The only consolation might be that the Yankees would lose thereby eliminating all of the talk we are now hearing about how this team may be the greatest team in the history of baseball.
		Political and philosophical ramblings from the mind of a student of the game.
	www.nowhitting.com /diehard001021.html (524 words)

	Terra Nova: The Numbers Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Game companies here regularly host events on weekends, offering special morphs, events, items (u guys all know the kind), which skew the concurrent user statistic in determining profitability.
		This is especially apparent when the ACU for game is 600,000 from one quarter to another, yet the PCU increases from 900,000 to 1.1 million in the same period, but revenue stays the same.
		Companies may be striving to obtain customers for their game, and measuring their success based on active accounts (or other basis as mentioned above) is of course important, but that same customer may be willing to remain subscribed to multiple games at once.
	terranova.blogs.com /terra_nova/2006/01/the_numbers_gam.html (7481 words)

	Fantastic Being - The Official Site, Fantasy, Eternal, Adventure, New, Neverending, Video Game, Online, Multiplayer, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Highly interactive gameplay is the reason for the Sneak Force's love of this game.
		First of all, for those who are new to Sneak Force, Zipsnick is the handheld portable gaming system the Sneak Force characters play.
		This gaming device is used for gaming, communications, and many other functions as well.
	www.sneakforce.com /fantasticbeing/preview (368 words)

	Read/WriteWeb: December 25, 2003 Archives
		The official Game Neverending website seemingly hasn't been updated since October 2003, but from the info I gleaned there I understand the game is at the beta stage (I've now signed up!).
		The company behind Game Neverending (GNE for short) is Ludicorp, based in Vancouver Canada.
		Game Neverending can't hope to compete against a fictitious world, but from what I've read it comes very close to attaining a virtual social software world - which is what I want!
	www.readwriteweb.com /2003/12/25.html (1361 words)

	Mindjack - Games - Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
		The game is significant for a number of reasons.
		If they lose fighting games, arcades will become even more of an amusement park, focusing on games like Dance Dance Revolution and simlution-type games that can't be replicated on home consoles.
		While many elements remain from previous Mortal Kombat games, there is now a much greater emphasis placed on combos (long chains of moves, instead of powerful special attacks).
	www.mindjack.com /games/mkda.html (789 words)

	IGN: The Real Neverending Story Preview
		Discreet Monster's President Siggi Kögl (who also happens to be the Producer of The Real Neverending Story) dropped by the IGN offices the other day with the latest build of the game in tow to show off what's been going on since we first laid eyes on this interesting little adventure title at E3.
		Like most adventure games, The Real Neverending Story will be very story driven, and uses what Siggi Kögl describes as "elastic story streaming," which means that although there's a main linear plot going on throughout the game, there are several subplots you can discover on your own during the course of the game.
		In hopes of keeping the game fast and truly a never ending experience, the game will be constantly loading data in and out of RAM, so there should be absolutely no hard drive loading during the game to break the immersive experience of the game.
	pc.ign.com /articles/133/133627p1.html (1064 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In other words, a well-designed multiplayer gaming environment should provide users with the tools and leave it to them to construct their own meaning and level of interaction within the (virtual) community.
		Moving beyond online gaming, this interview is important because Butterfield hits on a key element of online course design that is often overlooked: designing opportunities (both synchronous and asynchronous) for students to create social bonds (through interaction) is equally as important as the course content.
		Whether it's an online game, or an online course, more attention has to be paid to the social interactions taking place in the online classroom.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7695574&postID=112063266245255822 (369 words)

	Comments on 21060 \| MetaFilter
		A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.
		When my game data is loading, it always kinda locks at "character data", loading MB after MB (with me being on 56k).
		I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the game ends: users die, and then their game is over.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/21060 (2133 words)

	Mindjack - Stewart Butterfield Interview
		Finally, because the game has lots of social possibilities, having a really ambiguous relationship between player (real person) and character (game person) was something that appealed to us.
		We are trying to design the game so that relationships, reputation, skills and general who you are counts for more than the what stuff you have, so there should be less incentive for someone to good looking to convert their real-world currency to game things.
		Questions on voting open up one of the fundamental curiosities we're poking at in the design of the game, "what is the nature of human social self-organization?" Part of what characterizes the 'play' of a game like GNE is communal experimentation with and exploration of the mechanisms and boundaries that define the social process.
	www.mindjack.com /feature/gne.html (2680 words)

	nedrichards :: Nick Richards » Game Neverending (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Game Neverending is the coolest collaborative thing I’ve done online since I joined MeFi.
		The Game neverending is the reason there are web standards, to make beatiful and fun things like this in Javascript, CSS and a little bit of Flash.
		It’s a game that you play, not to win, like football or chess, but to keep on playing the game.
	www.nedrichards.com /2002/09/24/game-neverending (215 words)

	Andrew Wooldridge Dot Com: Game Neverending --- ending
		Game Neverending is being put up on blocks indefinitely.
		Flickr, Ludicorp's online community and photo sharing site, is on fire, and as a small company we don't have the resources to build both simultaneously.
		We love Game Neverending and wish we could do both, but it has been a struggle.
	www.andrewwooldridge.com /blog/2004/10/game-neverending-ending.html (155 words)

	What would REALLY be cool... - GameBanshee Forums
		It would be a great benefit to the game if a yearly patch, or maybe even half yearly patch was released for the game making it more interesting and exciting, allowing your to become even more powerful.
		There is a game available for download, however, that does what Reigns suggests: Siege of Avalon.
		The BG games have provided many more hours of gameplay than just about any other PC games I have ever played.
	www.gamebanshee.com /forums/baldurs-gate-ii-shadows-of-amn-9/what-would-really-be-cool-7002.html#post60220 (940 words)

	Future of Entertainment: Draft Themes and Issues
		-Allows identities to be carried in and out of game environment—bring game identity out of game space and into the rest of the web.
		Issue of establishing the “curtain” which indicates a game space or environment.
		Discovery of elements of the game is part of the thrill, the mystery of finding the entry point into an altered reality.
	blogger.iftf.org /Games/000112.html (577 words)

	Blended Edu::Social Media Resources for Learning::: Gaming & Learning as a Social Activity
		In this 2003 Mindjack interview, Butterfield discusses how his multiplayer gaming environment, Game Neverending, was a "social space designed to facilitate and enable play." As Butterfield explains:
		Moving beyond online gaming, this interview is important because Butterfield hits on a key element of online course design that is often overlooked: designing opportunities (both synchronous and asynchronous) for students to create social bonds (through interaction) is equally as important as the actual course content.
		While Game Neverending is no longer an active product (Ludicorp, along with their photo social network product Flickr, were accquired by Yahoo!
	blendededu.com /2005/07/gaming-learning-as-social-activity.html (408 words)

	Online Collaboration Borne From Multiplayer Game eWEEK - Find Articles
		SAN DIEGO—A startup company's online multiplayer game has spawned a new way to share and collaborate on the Web that melds elements of instant messaging, group chat and social networking.
		The company initially began developing a multiplayer game called Game Neverending, which it expects to launch this summer, and realized it could leverage much of its functionality in an online groupware-type application, Butterfield explained.
		Flickr, in fact, shares about 75 percent of Game Neverending's code in common, particularly code related to event distribution and messaging.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdewk/is_200402/ai_ziff119072 (423 words)

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