Category Archives: Diary

As you get older, you mostly find yourself launching the games you played as a kid. Launching being the key word. You fire it up, click around for a couple of minutes—well, maybe 10 at most—and then quit. There’s not … Continue reading →

I found a book called Game Development Essentials: An Introduction at a book-sharing station. Despite being 20 years old, it turned out to be quite decent in parts. I picked up a few interesting ideas. From what I understand, the … Continue reading →

Hooray, comrades! The migration is complete. Redirects have been set up. Here’s what’s new: I’m actively working on idleskills.com I played as a barbarian in the new season of Diablo 4. It was fun, but after a week I had … Continue reading →

Considering that many things in the world are changing (and not always for the better) – I have to optimize a few things. Specifically, this site will move to the domain igroglaz.com after some time – the .info domain is … Continue reading →

I’ve created an interesting video on how to play games correctly. Comments from the bearish editorial: The concept of “cheap endorphins” – getting quick and easy pleasure without significant effort. In MMORPGs, where players constantly feel satisfaction from easy-to-access achievements … Continue reading →

From the notes of someone who experienced Ultima Online in 1999 Today MMORPGs are reduced to farming… How it used to be: The game was a magical, unexplored, unknown adventure. You didn’t know what to expect from today’s “stroll.” Now … Continue reading →

I’ve found on my hard-drive stories about my father’s adventures in WoW. Most of them in Russian (to check them – click on the RU flag in menu), but also there is this one in English: This story happened 2008, … Continue reading →

I still remember my 1st time in M&M6.. I came as a little boy to my step-father friend as a guest (made a visit) and he had MM6 installed. I’ve created my party and walked around New Scorpigal fearing every … Continue reading →

I’ve made meme about my favorite series:

Tangaria – welcome to Tangar’s server! : D We made it! From the self-made server on the third level domain, something more has grown. I’ve slept this days for 3 hours, but it was worth it 🙂 Huge thanks to … Continue reading →

Hiho! I’ve just started to play MAngband (Multiplayer Angband) – https://mangband.org Recently this game had a birthday – 20 years! It’s got new website, relay between game and Discord (https://discord.gg/U5B65Rh) and also updates comming soon. Gameplay feels very oldschool and … Continue reading →

Cataclysm – oldschool sphere-like shard with no-skillcap and a lot of interesting features. My first impressions is positive, I like this shard, it feels very close to golden sphere era. But: