Richard Bartle's Recent Blog Entries

• Six Students Who Shouldn't Develop Games

  MUD co-author and Essex University principal fellow Richard A. Bartle talks about the sort of students he sees that should probably not get into games.

  The way we work at Essex, we have a common first year for all students wanting to study one of: computer games, software engineering, artificial intelligence, networks, security and straight computer science. Right now it's this way partly because we want to give all of our students a solid grounding across the board, and partly as a form of insurance so that those students who like computers but are unsure as to which direction they want their career to go have an extra year to make their decision.
  
  Here are some stereotypes of people I interview who don't make the cut:
  
  August 21, 2008