killtenrats.com - 4/19/2009
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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 area of the game at all times. No one wants ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Hauling Bronze Through Forgotten Realms
tagn.wordpress.com 9/14/2009 — “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 ...
Happy Birthday, MUD
raphkoster.com 10/24/2008 — Today is the official 30th birthday of MUD . And MUDs are, for better or worse, the crucible in which today’s virtual worlds were born. There were people who played MUDs working on The Realm , on Meridian 59 , on Kingdom of the Winds , on ...
Saving mud history
raphkoster.com 1/23/2009 — After the whole Threshold deal with Wikipedia and losing mud history , a new Wiki was created on Wikia in order to preserve mud history .
I’ve put up a detailed LegendMUD entry with a bunch of citations. Yeah, it’s a conflict of ...
What is missing in our games?
psychochild.org 26 days ago — 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 ...
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