Dave Rickey Fires Up Engines of Creation

BERKELEY, CA, June 3, 2003 — Dave Rickey, a well-known online game enthusiast & designer, today began publishing Engines of Creation, a new column on game design. This biweekly column is the newest entry in Skotos Tech's Online Gaming Library, which already includes almost 500 articles on online games, with 2-3 new ones being published every week.

Dave Rickey has been involved with two of the most successful online game launches to date. At Verant he was Assistant Head Game Master for EverQuest. At Mythic Entertainment, he was a world builder and developer of economic systems. His mission statement for his new column is simple. "Engines of Creation studies the process, theory, and business of making online games," says Dave.

Engines of Creation joins a number of successful columns that are already a part of the Skotos Online Gaming Library — some long-running, others new and innovative. The current columns include: The Medium, by Karrin Dailey, which investigates online communities; Playing with History, by Michael Karlin, which considers issues of historical game design; Trials, Triumphs, and Trivialities, by Shannon Appelcline, which offers lessons learned from running Skotos Tech, an online gaming channel; Building Stories, Telling Games, by RPG industry veteran Travis Casey, which considers gaming from the point-of-view of tabletop roleplaying games; and Storms on Cloud 9, by Scott Holliday, which focuses on the mechanics of online games.

Two fan favorites, Biting the Hand by Jessica Mulligan, and Notes from the Dawn of Time by Richard Bartle, are currently on hiatus, but expected to return. The complete archives of each column remain available at Skotos.

The Skotos Online Gaming Library is freely available at http://www.skotos.net/articles.

Proposals for new columns are always being considered. If you would like to regularly write about online game design, gaming news, or playing online games, email Library Editor, Shannon Appelcline at shannona@skotos.net.

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Founded in 1999, Berkeley, California-based Skotos Tech Inc. (http://www.skotos.net) is a developer and publisher of multiplayer games. Games released as part of the Skotos Gaming Channel include Castle Marrach, The Eternal City, Galactic Emperor: Hegemony, Gang of Four, Monsters! Monsters!: Grendel's Revenge, Meridian 59: Sacred Haven, Space Federation, and Underlight. Skotos has maintained its Online Gaming Library since September 21, 2000, when the first Trials, Triumphs & Trivialities article was published; the Library has regularly been lauded by leaders in the industry.

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