Comments on: Avatar Creation and the Newbie Experience: Lessons from Spore

By: kalbert

kalbert — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:41:13 +0000

i like this game

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Flash-Based Home Page Attracts New Users…and on the other hand

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:53:40 +0000

[...] not unlike Spore. And in fact, I wrote about Spore some time ago, saying: The point is to get potential users to invest in their avatars FIRST. [...]

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Customizable Avatars: Microsoft Jumps In

Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Customizable Avatars: Microsoft Jumps In — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:45:03 +0000

[...] I’ve posted on this before: orientation is a sacred cow that should be killed, and the model that Spore’s using is a game changer. Tagged: microsoft, Second Life, sony, [...]

By: Chimera Cosmos

Chimera Cosmos — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:52:42 +0000

Good ideas Dusan. It’s kind of like that in WoW. The problem with learning these things in Orientation is all the distractions–moving in the environment, other avatars, lots of things. I suppose you could look at it with a Cognitive Load framework–we can only effectively process so much at once. SL Orientation is definitely into the Cognitive Overload zone. hehe