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		<title>Raiding Literacies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adarel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big news of one small corner of the internet today was a series of charts that MMO-Champion put out showing the number of characters who had completed the current raiding tier in World of Warcraft. Now, the numbers were based off of only a sample of avatars so one cannot use them to speak [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adaplay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830341&amp;post=369&amp;subd=adaplay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Small Things: The Facebook Ticker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adarel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been on Facebook for a long time. I&#8217;ve seen countless changes to its design, some good and some not-as-good. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get used to this one in time as well, but the ticker has to go. If you haven&#8217;t noticed it, the ticker is this mini-Facebook feed in the upper-right corner of your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adaplay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830341&amp;post=361&amp;subd=adaplay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Badge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adarel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[achievements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, the 4th annual Digital Media &#38; Learning Competition was announced on the theme of &#8220;Badges for Lifelong Learning&#8221;. Around 10:15am or so, Twitter started erupting in very odd comments tagged with #dmlbadges from HASTAC&#8217;s live feed. Very big claims. I reacted quite strongly, as did many of my colleagues, and we were branded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adaplay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830341&amp;post=309&amp;subd=adaplay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zynga&#8217;s Adventure World: Evolution and Intelligent Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adarel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We all know Zynga as the creators of that evil Farmville game. You know, the one where you click cows. (Or am I thinking of something else?) It took the (Face)world by storm and introduced many of our mothers to a shiny new world of, well, shinies. But not without issues &#8211; the constant spam [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adaplay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830341&amp;post=294&amp;subd=adaplay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts on story in MMOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adarel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storytelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swtor]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://adaplay.wordpress.com/?p=281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This came up in the comments of a thread that Brent Breaux started earlier. We started discussing the manner in which story is going to be told in SWTOR. Storytelling is usually a way to communicate what happened in one place to someone who was in a different place. The storyteller is the mediator of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adaplay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830341&amp;post=281&amp;subd=adaplay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medea Project: Take 1</title>
		<link>http://adaplay.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/medea-project-take-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adarel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long been thinking of how to make a &#8220;digital translation&#8221; of Medea. For awhile, I planned to do so by using the Dragon Age toolset and create a visual encounter that played through the story of Euripides&#8217; Medea. This proved doable but cumbersome, and I&#8217;ve decided instead to make a purely text-based translation in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adaplay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830341&amp;post=270&amp;subd=adaplay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Truth Statements in Post-Primary Narrative: Alabaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adarel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truth and fiction have had quite the volatile relationship. Most people can agree that fiction is neither true nor false, but rather somewhere in between those two. Fiction is true in the world it creates (unless, of course, the narrator or characters lie to you, but such a statement is only meaningful if the literary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adaplay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830341&amp;post=264&amp;subd=adaplay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postmodern Play</title>
		<link>http://adaplay.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/postmodern-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adarel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m 10,000 feet above the ground right now, on my way to NYC, and Google has been kind enough to offer free Wi-Fi on flights over the holidays. It&#8217;s the perfect time to treat you all to the thoughts that have been mulling in my brain the last couple of days on the relationships between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adaplay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830341&amp;post=243&amp;subd=adaplay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Day Deathwing Came</title>
		<link>http://adaplay.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/the-day-deathwing-came/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adarel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If any of you have been living under a rock lately, maybe you haven&#8217;t heard that Deathwing came and shook the foundations of Azeroth. The world has changed and the change is predominantly good. I&#8217;m talking about the new World of Warcraft expansion: Cataclysm. Although it doesn&#8217;t come out until December 7th, Blizzard pre-patched the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adaplay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830341&amp;post=230&amp;subd=adaplay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Boss Drops Are a Good Mechanic</title>
		<link>http://adaplay.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/why-boss-drops-are-a-good-mechanic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adarel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[loot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of months, I have watched the Turbine crew prepare Lord of the Rings Online for its shift to becoming a free-to-play game. Although there are many new and changed features one could talk about, I&#8217;d like to focus attention on the scaled instances and their rewards. The developers have taken the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adaplay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830341&amp;post=219&amp;subd=adaplay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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