tagn.wordpress.com - 9/14/2009
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“Can you summon?”
That was the question that started me off on one of the… erm… rule bending ventures that I alluded to in my post about the results of the poll on what is cheating. It was probably 14 years ago when it happened, back on SojournMUD, long enough that I ...
The End of MUD History?
tagn.wordpress.com 1/7/2009 — The angst of the week seems to be about Wikipedia chopping articles about MUDs because they lack verifiable sources.
For good or bad, Wikipedia is the animal it is, and its rules can be enforced rather selectively. Somebody seems to have it in ...
MUD Wiki
mud.wikia.com 1/13/2009 — Featured article LegendMUD is a Diku -derived MUD created in late 1993 and launched officially on February 14, 1994 [1] [2] . It is themed around history [3] , and early on used the slogan "history the way they thought it was." In older materials, it ...
Wikipedia MUDslinging
tobolds.blogspot.com 1/11/2009 — From Plato to the Matrix people have pondered the question whether reality is absolute, or whether it is just an image in our brains. But whatever philosophy you adhere to, it is undisputed that if different people describe the same reality, you more ...
Small world vs Big world
killtenrats.com 4/19/2009 — In MMORPGS we always want things bigger. We want bigger worlds, bigger cities, and of course we want a bigger server population. We reason that if there’s several thousand players on a server, there’s sure to be people online in every ...
Losing MUD history
raphkoster.com 1/5/2009 — QBlog writes on the controversy going on over the possible deletion of the article on Threshold MUD . I’ve run into the fact that Wikipedia isn’t a great resource for research into the history of virtual worlds many times before; the ...
What is missing in our games?
psychochild.org 10/12/2009 — Sometimes I wonder if MMOs have really lived up to their potential. From my first steps playing a text MUD and realizing that some of those other characters were controlled by people like me, these games captured my imagination. The fun diversion ...
“Worst. Presentation. Ever.”
brokentoys.org 5/1/2009 — Richard Bartle recently posted the presentation slides from his IMGDC keynote .
Note: bad presenters slam their entire presentation script into each Powerpoint slide, then read droningly from each slide, word for word, as if their audience were a ...
Lost in the Faerie Forest
tagn.wordpress.com 28 days ago — Leuthilspar Tales – Part IV
As an elf starting out in the early days of TorilMUD you were stuck on an island for 20 levels. An island with a home town and three zones, Kobold Village, the Faerie Forest, and the Elemental Glades.
Kobold Village, once you got in, was the preferred ...
Today the MUD and the MMO turn 30
massively.com 10/24/2008 —
Today marks the 30th birthday of the original MUD, created at Essex University by Roy Trubshaw in 1978. We recommend you check out what Richard Bartle -- who worked on later iterations of the project -- has to say about this event, as well as Raph ...
The Bronze King
champions-online.com 3/24/2009 — The Bronze King
Once, he was King. He ruled over Lemuria
with more wisdom than any one man could ever boast. He was wise, just,
and in possession of the vast arcane secrets of his underwater kingdom.
That was before he went mad.
But the seeds of ...
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