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Tyler Kalinske
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About 80% of U.S. kids age 9 to 12 have played Roblox.
Rex Woodbury • The Building Blocks of Tech
Instead of manipulating “users,” the best products of today are putting technology back in control of people’s hands by using game play principles, not game mechanics. Understanding the difference between these two things, and how they apply to products outside of the gaming category, will dictate the difference between the winners and losers of pr... See more
Matthew Hartman • i++ Issue #4: The next Zapier or IFTTT will use Game Design
One of the innovations that Roblox did is there was a relentless focus on removing the barriers to creating content on our platform. Not only did we give the tools away, but we hosted the content for free. We provide customer support. We translate it into five different languages. We automatically port it to all available platforms. It’s everything... See more
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
DOOM embraced the idea of shared creativity. Rather than requiring the user to start from a blank slate, DOOM provided the structure and tools which allowed people to re-combine and add things to an existing system. This lowered the barrier to entry, not only in terms of the required technical skill (since it was not necessary to learn to write cod... See more
Anton Troynikov • Remixable Software - Guest Post
Meat Loaf might have been sincere, but he was just a fat goofball who was cool in spite of himself. But Bruce was trying to save you. He appealed to the kind of desperate intellectual who halfway believed that—when not recording or touring—Springsteen actually went back to New Jersey to work at a car wash. Before he even utters his lyrics, people a
... See moreChuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
DOOM was extremely humane software. It let you play with your friends, even in the shareware version. And along with the game itself, id released tools which allowed anyone to easily modify the game’s levels and assets, and then share them for others to use. This created a thriving ecosystem that exists to this day.
Anton Troynikov • Remixable Software - Guest Post
After all, to those Jews who had despaired of Europe, to those Jews for whom Zionism was the beginning of a renewed dream and a renewed hope, Herzl was Abraham, who first wandered “to the place that I will show you.” He was Moses, leading his flock to the Promised Land. He was David, with the promise of renewed Jewish sovereignty. He was Bar Kokhba
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