Tracking MMORPG game developers blogging

Ryan Shwayder is tracking the blogs of the various game developers working on MMORPG at his site bloginati.com. His description of Bloginati:

Bloginati [blŏg-i-nah-tee]: Bloggers who possess, or claim to possess, superior enlightenment on a particular subject (plural noun). Bloginato [blŏg-i-nah-toh] (singular)

Ryan offers sorting the feeds by time in a river of news style approach or feeds by site. I didn’t see an OPML feed which would make it easier to follow them — but that would somewhat negate the use of Ryan’s site. Not saying this is the case here, but one shouldn’t be fearful of those kinds of details as anybody can compile the list of feeds and make an OPML file on their own (and share it with others). One other nitpicky item about Ryan’s site: those blasted hover over Snap images everywhere. Please get rid of them. I realize there’s code to disable those with a click of a button, but, well, they suck.

As for the developer bloggers? Checking over the various blog designs doesn’t excite. Few bothered to create logos. Several were using default design blogs. Yikes, do a little searching around for templates, they don’t take that long to create. Help defeat the stereotype that programmers create boring looking designs. Some might argue compellingly that you can just subscribe by RSS so how does a blog design matter any more? Sure, but wouldn’t it be a lot cooler if they could take some early concept art of the games they were working on and use that as backdrop for their blogs? With permission of course.

Bottom line: I didn’t see any developer blogs that jumped out at me to subscribe. If you’re in Ryan’s list, why should any of the VTOR authors subscribe and cover your blog? Or would you rather we didn’t?