Yes, But Where’s Dr. Phil

Posted on January 22, 2007 by Scott Jennings| 7 Comments

The OPRAH (Online People’s Revolutionary Army of Horseshoe) report is up.

Apparently, the problem with online games is that developers don’t learn from history enough. Who knew!

(As seen on Raph’s)

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  • Caya

    Dr. Phil? Given the recent hype about Second Life you’d better call for Dr. Ruth. :)

  • http://......right MrOrange

    I was confused. I was looking for the “Donate here ” link.
    Sounds like a lot of bulshit,actually. Knowing and doing..will not matter. People are sheep and are infected with the “OMG A SHINEY !” syndrom. People are stupid. Those guys cannot fix that.You may as well spout off about how shitty our government handles our funds and make a panel which will accomplish nothing…oh we already have one of those :)

    It reads more like smoke for an up and comming game.Some of the names there sure make it look and walk like a Duck

  • Evangolis

    Read the suggestions for modifying the greenlight process, and thought it sounded reasonable, at least from my relatively uninformed viewpoint. Applying project management approaches that have worked elsewhere wouldn’t be completely stupid.

    Or we could double the amount of crunch time. That always works.

  • magicback (frank)

    Crunch time is the result of poor production management, not “the way it is” or “a test of might”.

    I viewed the essense of the report more from the perspective of sharing and adopting industry best practices particularly in the environment of NDA, trade secrets, etc. So far, the primary way knowledge of best practices are shared is when employees from one company take it to another company. Gamasutra, GDC, etc. do their part in sharing knowledge, but the question is are they enough?

  • Huomenta

    “We are not, but should be, a Customer-Centric Business. We often break promises…”

    “Create Online Game Development Best Practices Wiki:
    - http://www.onlinebestpractices.org Group 11/7/06″

    “www.onlinegamebestpractices.org not open yet, but soon.” [as of 1/23/07]

    Already missed their first deliverable – opening a wiki!! – by 2 months and counting.

  • http://www.lietcam.com Lietgardis

    “So far, the primary way knowledge of best practices are shared is when employees from one company take it to another company.”

    There’s also the time-honored tradition of sharing beers at game conferences. Within MMOs, anyway, most folks are pretty open and friendly.

  • http://www.raphkoster.com Raph

    The first date was to create the Wiki. It was in fact created on that date. :) OPENING it is another matter!