"There's a running joke in the games industry," developer Trond Fasteraune tells us, "where making an MMO is something you shouldn't do." There are good reasons for that. There's the scale, of course, ...

In November, I wrote a shouty opinion piece crying out to the masses of budding indie developers: “For God's sake, don't make an MMO for your first indie game!” It is worth a read on its own, but in ...