List of Cool Links

What and Why

Google and Bing have become very crappy. Every day I find it harder and harder to find stuff there. Some time ago I wrote a tweet stating that 'I used to be a Google user, now it doesn't find anything. I moved to Bing a month ago, it's now become the same. It's all AI nonsense. It's time to go back to 'Cool Sites' links on personal webpages. We've gone full circle.'

This is my (self) response to that.

(BTW I use Ecosia now, and it seems to work much better than the alternatives. It's a keyword based search engine, so it doesn't search by matching your query to website profiles; it actually tries to match the words you requested.)

I've recently learned about Awesome Lists*. I don't think this qualifies as one. But here's some stuff I found interesting. I'm mostly into game design and development (particularly MMORPGs), so I expect to end up adding a lot of resources about that here. And other things. I hope you find it interesing too!

*Awesome Lists are curated lists of resources about a specific topic. These lists are often created and maintained by enthusiasts and experts in the respective field.

Links About MMORPG Design

  1. Virtual Economic Theory: How MMOs Really Work
  2. Google Play MMORPG Report (PDF)
  3. IAP Packs in Mobile F2P: Analysis and Design
  4. Game Ticks (Server Cycles) in RuneScape
  5. Game Squares (Tiles) in RuneScape

Links About Shaders & Visual Effects

  1. Blender NPR: Recreating the Genshin Impact Shader

Links About General Game Design

  1. The case for movie-length, narrative video games

Links About General Programming & Computing

  1. Code that Doesn't Rot
  2. Why are scripting languages (e.g. Perl, Python, and Ruby) not suitable as shell languages?
  3. How Big Should a Programming Language Be?
  4. After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

Links About Retrocomputing

  1. Rediscovering the Small Web

Links About Other Fun Stuff

  1. The Rise of Wackaging
  2. The Black Box Theory

Links to Games

  1. Eterspire (Best mobile MMORPG in the history of the universe)
  2. AdventureQuest
  3. Queville (dead, but interesting for archaeological reasons)
  4. Nodiatis

Video Essays

  1. RuneScape is Awesome, And Here's Why
  2. Making Night in the Woods Better with Open Source
  3. Crafting A Tiny Open World: A Short Hike Postmortem
  4. Worst MMO Ever? - Nostale
  5. Worst MMO Ever? - Nodiatis

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