One of my favorite starting points for general research used to be Wikipedia, but by now, many of you in the gaming industry may have heard all the hooplah about the entire Threshold RPG vs. Wikipedia incident. (That's a bit of a misnomer. I should...

People ask me all the time how I go about writing all the fiction and the details that I do for work. (I develop virtual worlds for a living. This includes the geography, the history, the races, and the culture.) I mostly use basic tools that all...

Quests, as a word in the gaming community, has been dumbed down beyond belief by the churn-n-burn questing style introduced by World of Warcraft that has continued in Everquest II, Warhammer Online, Lord of the Rings Online, and just about any new...

Almost all online roleplaying games require some sort of gems system for their virtual world. Some games opt to go with real life gem counterparts, and they skip the need to create gems particular to their own world. The most important decision that...

For most games and especially text games, writing should be done in the active voice to give players a true sense of events within the game's history and current happenings. Many writers fall into the habit of writing in the passive voice which can...