In an effort to revitalize this blog, I have decided to write about one of my favorite things: World of Warcraft. (Thanks to Dan for suggesting the topic of my first few posts!) To start off, I’d like to talk about WoW interface addons; this post will be the first in what will probably be a fairly long series describing my favorite addons and how they enhance the WoW gameplay experience.
For those new to WoW, perhaps I should back up a moment and describe what an interface addon is. One of Blizzard’s most interesting and forward-thinking decisions in the design of WoW was to make its client scriptable. Most games let you customize their interface a little by rearranging windows, graphical skinning, and the like, but WoW goes much farther than that by embedding a complete programming language in the client so that its behavior can be drastically changed or extended.
To be honest, the availability of this degree of customization is one reason I keep coming back to World of Warcraft. I’ve been spoiled — every time I play some other game, I keep finding small inconveniences or wishing for new features, and in the back of my head I can’t help but think “if this was WoW, there would be an addon for this”. (And if there wasn’t, I could probably write one.) So, over the next few weeks or months, I’m going to talk about my favorite addons, why I like them, and how to tweak them to your liking. And since I have so many, this will probably be quite a long series of posts…
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Ah, cool! Y’know, my feed reader shows only the first paragraph, and it doesn’t even indicate that there might be more. It was pure chance that I came here and noticed that there was a lot more to your post. Maybe you can change that setting? I don’t usually visit actual blogs and I’d hate to miss anything
Apparently, even if you select full text for your feed, WordPress doesn’t include the stuff after the “–more–” tag, and expects that if you use it that you’ll mention something about reading the rest of the article. I’ll have to adjust my writing accordingly