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Tobold's Blog
Personal blog · tobolds.blogspot.comgames
Tobold's Blog is a personal blog at tobolds.blogspot.com about games. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Tobold's MMORPG blog, running since 2003, covering online games and their industry. Linked posts include one on Ralph Koster's move from Metaplace to Facebook games and a theory of fun.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
You may be interested in Tobold's MMORPG blog, which has all sorts of interesting insights and has been going since 2003 http://tobolds.blogspot.com/
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on “The CRPG Addict”- bd · 2009-10-27
Submitted Facebook games: Scam or useful tool? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Along similar lines - Tobold's MMORPG blog, which has been going since 2003 (!). http://tobolds.blogspot.com/
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on “The CRPG Addict”Are you talking about complex desktop/platform games or the whole social gaming phenomenon ? Here's an interesting article by Tobolds ( http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2010/07/another-theory-of-fun.ht... ) where he describes how the Metaplace virtual environment founder - Ralph Koster - turned around, created Facebook games and sold them for a pile of money to Playdom. The question is, if indeed you are going the low-te…
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on “Indie (Game) Fund is open for applications”