{"id":796,"date":"2006-03-24T10:41:30","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T15:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2006-03-27T12:58:57","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T17:58:57","slug":"colliding-with-the-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Colliding With The Obvious *Update*"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a one-page piece over on Wired<\/em>, “When Virtual Worlds Collide” (Link)<\/a>, that to me is pretty much stating the obvious. If I had to guess, author Steven Johnson read Raph Koster’s now net-infamous declaration on single-player games (I mentioned Koster’s posts earlier – reLink<\/a>). And maybe – probably – he’s been following news of Multiverse (also something I’ve mentioned – reLink<\/a>); the effort to create an infrastructure for MMOG’s. What he misses imo are the kinds of comments I’ve made on 3D file formats and their lack of portability in that post and elsewhere (I’ve also hinted at solutions to this issue – reLink<\/a>). OGLE<\/a> might be neat, but it’s no substitute for a truly universal 3D format.<\/p>\n

Maybe someday.<\/p>\n

{Update: Terra Nova has picked up the story and posted an entry, “Yeah, not so much” (Link)<\/a>. The discussion over there might be of interest. I’ve only scanned the comments, but I don’t get the impression some of the people there have followed Koster’s remarks regarding single-player games residing inside a larger metaversal (is that a word?) structure. It’s really mostly about games and narratives, I think.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a one-page piece over on Wired, “When Virtual Worlds Collide” (Link), that to me is pretty much stating the obvious. If I had to guess, author Steven Johnson read Raph Koster’s now net-infamous declaration on single-player games (I mentioned … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}