Broken Toys

But that guy worked for SEGA and stuff. He must know what he’s talking about.

I, for one, would LOVE to wade through a proper TDD written by this young man. I’m sick and tired of professional designers who bother to run spell check.

I especially like how one of the graphs in the Economy section is one of Sirbruce’s subscription charts. At least it’s all squiggly-n-stuff.

…

what the HELL?

But the pages have corners you can turn! FTW!

I like the part where I can’t read more than 3 words on the flowchart.

I take umbrage at page 3. Look at that picture, trying to be all cool and sexy with his sunglasses and unbuttoned shirt. Instead of just giving us content. I am thinking of buying the book just to look at his picture.

And someone made a comment on Jeff’s blog about the lack of spell check. I must disagree, it is SUPPOSED to be “ewarding the player” not “rewarding”. This is the 21st century you know!

“Quoting yourself is the ideal way to tell the world just how big a douchebag you are.”
- Scott(Not Lum), Brokentoys.org, Nov. 2007

Someone should hire this guy immediately and make him a VP of something. He’s got that VP aura.

Why is it that right now I can’t stop thinking about all the Y2K Survival Guide books from 1999?

…will not make a Dawn reference…will NOT make a Dawn reference…

I’m still trying to work out if it’s brilliant satire or not…

The link from the last page:
http://jamesallsopp.blogspot.com/

Phase 5: “…make your MMO interesting.”

Why, I happen to have a vat full of interestingness right here. I’ll just ladle it on (like gravy!) and we can ship.

In the kid’s defence, he’s only 18. He’s probably only just out of high school. You have to give him points for enthusiasm if nothing else, even if he is a little.. uh.. off the mark?

I just noticed he referred to Raph as “Ralph”. I retract my former defence. Damned kid needs to learn to read.

Absolutely appalling. Especially the World of Warcraft article on his blog.

If you can’t understand that the purpose of the game is to gather items, equipment, increase in level and experience while having fun with other players doing so, you should seriously stop thinking about MMO’s and consider jobs like McDonald’s clerk or something.

I have been properly chastised by Ole Bald Angus, and his point is entirely correct.

I’ll feel real bad if his feeling get hurt just so I could crack wise.

Not that knowing this would dissuade anyone from attacking him… I’m just sayin’.

It’s just an ebook, which despite its appearance is of no more substance than any one of the ten thousand stupid things I’ve said on the internet, myself.

It’s amusing. There’s really no need to go beyond that into rage and disgust.

He’s young and keen, though writing a book as if you’re an authority on a subject is amusing (though it looks like the book has been taken offline now, that or it died from the traffic)

If the CV/blog about new job on his site is accurate he’s doing OK anyway as a game modder/artist so I’m sure he’ll do fine, maybe just not quite ready to design an entire MMO from the ground up on his own yet…

He’s 18? dammit I wasn’t starting my own company at 18, I was busy drinking.

After reading the ebook, I had to go for a brisk walk until my IQ regen’d. Then I came back to snark.

Then I shut my damn mouth, because the song you quoted, Scott? Came out before the author was born.

A lot of people seem to be missing the point that that IS the entire book, right there.

It’s more of a fancy blog post than a book.

There’s no money involved.

All hail the semi-literate messiah sent to lead us to the promised land of MMO 2.0.

In other news, if you’re 18, hip and gadgety but can’t spell ‘iPhone’ then you just failed hard.

He doesn’t get the Grind appeal of WoW but instead prefers the OldSkool MMO’s that don’t have grinding ?

Like, er, what ?

I was going to comment, but I can’t see the monitor very well through my bleeding eyeballs.

A direct quote from his WoW article:

“Is this what many mainstream MMO’s contain, players who mock new players?”

Welcome to the internets, my friend. Welcome.

C’mon, people! A guy’s reputation is at steak!

“Merkwurdigliebe on November 27, 2007 said:

C’mon, people! A guy’s reputation is at steak!”

This is clearly a slap in the face to all rouges.

I call fake.

Long running fake, maybe.

Or village idiot just flat-out lying about his employment history.

The “oh, but he’s just a kid” thing is bunk – all of the switched-on people I know today weren’t anywhere near this dumb when they were 18, or even 15.

“This is clearly a slap in the face to all rouges.”

Actually, another Dawn reference. Hehe.

The guy must have done this as an exercise, or a joke, or something. Clearly it can’t be serious. Although his WoW comments do make you wonder. Either way, it would make a great ytmnd.com.

Interestingly you might want to compare this post from his blog with this news post from a random English design agency.

Interestingly Googling for his in combination with Sega brings up a whole bunch of people claiming that he’s basically making it up. He doesn’t appear to be credited for his alleged work on Sega Rally Revo either.

Ah it further appears that young Mr. Allsopp uses the nom de guerre of Sysdevja who seems to have quite the reputation.

If you disagree I do understand it’s a freedom of speech.

I’ve been staring at this sentence for about 20 minutes now, daring it to make sense.

I give up.

I didn’t read all 38 preview pages, but I’m sure somewhere, on a flowchart was fetuspults, magic net code, and advertising to sell golf clubs.

Thanks again, antipwn, for revealing yet another self-made Internet genius.

Great, OBA makes me feel guilty for being mean to him, and all I get for that is antipwn making me feel guilty for having felt guilty about it.

Oh, internet, there’s just no pleasing you, is there?

Hey, maybe all that incredible stuff is true. That would explain the self-quotes.

Jesus didn’t run around quoting other people either.

Probably not, though. So I think the moral of this story is to never feel guilty in the first place.

Or else the lady teaching Sunday School all those years ago was somehow right – we should always be feeling guilty about something.

But that would surprise me since it turns out she was just an administrative assistant at an insurance company who posed as a Sunday School Teacher for an hour or so, once a week. If she was right, it’d almost have to be coincidentally.