PvP in sandbox MMOs is inherently fraught with an unsolved issue. Many PvP oriented MMOs have to shut down, after loosing most of their audience and mixed PvE/PvP games suffer from it as well. Some...

Games have always had to find ways to introduce their players to the game, and teach them how it works and what to do. But the way this is done, and how this is typically approached, has evolved ov...

Sometime during the last few days, a new entry appeared on the public Stars Reach roadmap. Or maybe it had already been there before, but it’s description got fleshed out. (Credit for the discovery...

A few days ago, Stars Reach released it’s oft’ delayed 27th pre-alpha test update. I completely missed that original update, since it happened without any prior announcement. When I went to bed, no...

I swear, I had zero intention or plan of writing another blog post on this topic. (Well it’s not exactly the same topic…). These words just wanted out, and so I started typing what I believed could...

I recently wrote a blog post on Tutorials in general, as well one chapter of a blog post on specifically the new tutorial area of Stars Reach (an in-development social sandbox MMORPG by Raph Koster...

Welcome to the 26th pre-alpha test report on Stars Reach, the currently in development new social sandbox MMORPG by Raph Koster! The newest update patch landed yesterday, on January 22nd and it is...

Whenever a new player first encounters a game they have never played before, there is a certain initial hurdle to overcome. If the learning curve hits you like a wall, or you are just unable to adj...

The hooby.blog went live on the 25th of January, 2025. But it did so with a number of pre-existing posts, dating back several months. When I rewrote those prior postings into blog posts, I kept the...

The way that elecricity and electronics work means, that ultimately all the power that a computer consumes is converted into heat. That mans, that while your PC is sucking 700 Watts from the wall, ...