The massively multiplayer online game discussion continues on the Nerfbat Forums. We now have 293 members, 238 topics, and 3799 posts! Here are some of the recent threads that you may want to check out from the past week or so: Continue Reading »

I’ve actually been working on the podcast, believe it or not. I’ve decided to include a segment in which I answer reader questions about design, myself, the site, or the podcast. No, I won’t answer anything about 38 Studios or “Copernicus.” You can send me an email, contact me on the forums, or just reply to this thread with a question and I might answer it in the podcast. Continue Reading »

No, I’m not talking about “Copernicus” from 38 Studios. I’m announcing a whole different beast entirely, and many of us at the company are working on it. We discovered that our licenses for Unreal and BigWorld extend to any number of games and apply even to individual members of the company, so I and 9 others have formed Mad Alchemist Laboratories to make a smaller scale project on the side. Continue Reading »

I’ve updated Nerfbat to the latest version of WordPress, which is currently 2.5. Let me know if you experience any issues with the site so I can get them fixed up as soon as possible. If you use WP for your blog, you can find out more about 2.5 on the WordPress site. It’s a pretty big update, but I haven’t noticed an major issues so far.

The massively multiplayer online game discussion continues on the Nerfbat Forums. It’s been a little while since my last Tales from the Tavern, so there were quite a few new threads that became popular in that time. We now have 280 members, 228 topics, and 3539 posts on the forums. Read on for a few of the latest threads. Continue Reading »

So someone took it upon themselves to create an exact copy of my website (change the com to info in the URL). I want it to go away, because I’m sure it will just be converted into a load of advertisements or something of the like after it starts getting hits on search engines instead of the real site. Does anyone know what I can do? I know there’s the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but I have no idea what I have to do or where to submit to make sure it goes away. Thanks. Update: That site is now down, hopefully for good.

There’s been a lot of activity in the past week on the Nerfbat Forums. Lots of great discussion about MMO design and other tangentially related topics. We’re now up to 3083 posts and 270 members. Here are just a few threads that caught my interest recently, but there were too many new ones to try to list them all. Continue Reading »

The Nerfbat Forums have been exploding, in a good way. More great game development discussion than I’ve seen in a long time. As such, this round-up of some of the latest and greatest from the forums will be a little longer than normal. We’re now up to 2769 posts and 260 members. Feel free to join us in our MMO discussion! Continue Reading »

You may have noticed me working on the site for the last few days after the move. I’ve been trying to improve it in a bunch of little ways to make visiting Nerfbat more fun. First, though, I’d like to take a second to thank those who have donated: Cyanbane, Genda, and Jason. Thank you very much for the donations–if they weren’t already put toward hosting, they will be put toward podcasting gear. So, what’s new around these parts? Continue Reading »

Welcome to the new, super fast server for Nerfbat.com! If you’re seeing this, you have arrived at the new server, where you can comment and post again on the Nerfbat Forums. Big thanks go out to the folks at the GuildCafe Alliance for hosting and setting everything up. If you haven’t signed up for GuildCafe, do so and give me some respect so I can become a Knight! Continue Reading »