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Archive for 2011

Parting with Real World Cash for Virtual Items

In the last post I spoke about how game economies are generally setup and how they need to be managed in order to ensure the health of the economy. I will go into much more detail in later posts about what exactly should be taken account of in managing game economies, but for now wanted [...]



Categorized as Gamemetrification

Setting up a virtual economy

In my last post I spoke about looking into setting up a virtual economy and how the large players have people running these economies full time. In this post I would like to look at how to setup virtual economies are generally setup. Back when I used to play Star Wars Galaxies I was fascinated [...]



Categorized as Gamemetrification, Local Entrepreneurship

Old blog gone

I don’t know how many times I’ve started blogging here then cancelled it all over the past couple of years – but it has to be a fair few times. My motive for blogging was never really clear other than to get some ideas and thoughts on various topics out ‘there’. Right now, I do [...]



Categorized as Gamemetrification, Local Entrepreneurship, Social Media