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Farmville For Real. Run A Real Farm Online

May 11th, 2011 No Comments

Farmville may be the biggest Facebook game to date. And Zynga’s laughing all the way to the bank.

But do you know that you can run a REAL farm online? You heard me right. Britain’s National Trust has established MyFarm, in which “A real estate in Cambridgeshire, England has been set aside to be “run” by 10,000 “farmers”, who each month will determine via voting what gets built, which crops are sown, basically anything and everything to do with running a real, functional farm.”

See the video after the break

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GM Tristan dot Com Best Posts of 2010

January 10th, 2011 1 Comment

2010 was an awesome year. There’s much growth on my blog’s readership and the Facebook page has never been better.

In work, we launched a couple of games this year, I went to Indonesia for RWC, and of course, had another uber-successful LU LIVE 2010.

For my hobbies, I certainly couldn’t wish anything else. Had great mods and projects for the model kits and also made great progress (and improvements, I hope) in Photography.  Let me share with you the top posts and my favorite posts of 2010.

Thanks to you, all my dear readers, without you, this success and the awesome year that was 2010 would not have been possible.

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New Year’s Resolutions and Gaming

December 30th, 2010 1 Comment

The new year is upon us. And, like last year, I’m off to make another list of New Year’s resolutions… most of which will be just for moot.

I’m sure me, like many others, will be making their own resolution lists. But what if we put a cool spin on it? And treat New Year’s Resolutions like a game? There are many instances where we can compare it to video games… let’s see what those points are, shall we?

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How To Know If You’re Addicted to MMORPGs

October 7th, 2010 7 Comments

Addiction to anything is bad. Even games.

It’s a disease. A lot of people think they’re not addicted until it’s too late. Then they have problems with family, work or school. I’ll be the first dude to say that even TOO MUCH playing is a bad thing. Yes, even if I work in the gaming industry. We all have to prioritize the important things too… work, school and family, among other things.

According to this study on netaddictions.com, here are the symptoms to know if you’re already addicted to MMORPGs.

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10 Ways Video Games Can Boost Your Professional Career

July 26th, 2010 5 Comments

Sharing with you a good article by business site Forbes.com

The story tells a tale about two top executives who started out as gamers. Among them is Elliot Noss, chief executive of domain name provider Tucows, and 20-something Stephen Gillett, a gamer who became chief information officer of Starbucks. Both have applied leadership principles acquired through their own video game experiences.

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Team Shivans (Naked Babies) Wins RWC 2010 Philippine Finals

July 18th, 2010 6 Comments

It’s over!

We have a new Philippine Champion! Team Shivans defeats their sister team, Naked for the honor to represent the Philippines in this year’s RWC. They will fly to Jakarta, Indonesia and compete.

Last year, we finished 1st runner up vs. Japan. Who knows what will happen to us this year? Is it time to become champions? With 4 girls in the team, I hope “girl power” will be FTW!

More photos after the break…

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5 Online Game Design Notes For The Future

July 2nd, 2010 2 Comments

It used to be simpler 8 to 10 odd years or so ago, the online gaming market wasn’t as cramped, cutthroat and saturated like what it is today. In today’s unforgiving industry, a LOT of games get designed, put on the proverbial closed beta axe and (around 80% to 90%) will never get to see the light of day. This may be due to the fact that most games are just rehashes or old gimmicks or, sadly, clones of more popular AAA titles. There toooo much fantasy titles out there. The teams that tried to stay away from them are also having a hard time.

Only the innovative designs strike a big chance of seeing their titles go past the betas and earn money in the “commercial” stage. A like-the-rest-of-em game may be a modest hit but if another similar title comes up with better graphics, it’s difficult to start all over again and retain players.

Here’s my unsolicited advice for the design/developer talents out there… some ideas off the top of my head on how to make things work…

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Beware of Online Game Scammers

March 10th, 2010 5 Comments

Scammers are getting wiser. Since we started Ragnarok in the Philippines way back in 2003, scammers also started their fiendish “art”. The most common method was impersonating a GM and asking for your username and password. Sadly, a lot of people fall for these tricks.

Now, they use more complicated methods; replicating a game’s customer support page, top up page or even log-in page. They also use YM spams and e-mail. A couple of days ago, I received this message in my personal mail.

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LIVE 2009 Early Birds

November 10th, 2009 2 Comments

Traditionally, the Early Bird “pila” outside WTC is a festive gathering of gamers, guildmates and friends. This year, it’s the first time ever that some gamers (from RF Online) were there as early as Thursday!

I went out on Friday night (Nov 6) to check on the gamers at the line… enjoy the vid.

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Vitamins for an MMO

August 31st, 2009 6 Comments

If an MMO were a human being, it would need nourishment in order to survive.

Sadly, a lot of MMOs die without even seeing their commercial launch. This prompted me to write this short article on what “vitamins” a game really needs in order to survive this cut-throat industry were hundreds of games compete for success.

Let’s examine the vitamins, one by one, shall we?

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