July 2001
- [TECH] Open Source oodb/object persistence toolkit library alpha release Brian Price
- In-game email (was On socialization and convenience) Gavin Doughtie
- In-game email (was On socialization and conveni ence) Freeman, Jeff
- In-game email (was On socialization and convenience) Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- TECH DGN: Single user MOB arena Trevyn
- TECH: CRPGs vs. RPGs, Way Back When... Michael Tresca
- TECH: CRPGs vs. RPGs, Way Back When... Matt Owen
- TECH: CRPGs vs. RPGs, Way Back When... J C Lawrence
- TECH: CRPGs vs. RPGs, Way Back When... Michael Tresca
- (no subject) Alan Unsworth
- (no subject) Edward Falconer
- (no subject) J C Lawrence
- (no subject) Bruce Mitchener
- (no subject) Travis Casey
- (no subject) J C Lawrence
- (no subject) Travis Casey
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Brian Hook
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Freeman, Jeff
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Trump
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Jeremy Noetzelman
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers J C Lawrence
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Matt Mihaly
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Matt Owen
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Jeremy Noetzelman
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Bryce Harrington
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers J C Lawrence
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Brian Hook
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers J C Lawrence
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Brian Hook
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers J C Lawrence
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Vincent Archer
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Madman Across the Water
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Richard Aihoshi aka Jonric
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Brian Hook
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers J Todd Coleman
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Brian Hook
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- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Jon Lambert
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Sean Kelly
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Bruce Mitchener
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- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Dave Rickey
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Travis Casey
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- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Alistair Milne
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Travis Casey
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers J C Lawrence
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- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Vincent Archer
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- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Alistair Milne
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- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Caliban Tiresias Darklock
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- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Jeremy Noetzelman
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers J C Lawrence
- Libs for 3D Client/Servers Jeremy Noetzelman
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- New polls claw@kanga.nu
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- [TECH] Data-transfer protocols for MUDs Adam Martin
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- Edged weapon damage John W Pierce
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- Player characters as a prey species Ling Lo
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- Chatting in MMPORPGs Peter Tyson
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- Chatting in MMPORPGs Matt Mihaly
- Chatting in MMPORPGs Peter Tyson
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- Chatting in MMPORPGs Eli Stevens
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- Chatting in MMPORPGs Vincent Archer
- Chatting in MMPORPGs Adam Martin
- Chatting in MMPORPGs Kevin Littlejohn
- Chatting in MMPORPGs Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Chatting in MMPORPGs Lee Sheldon
- Chatting in MMPORPGs Madman Across the Water
- Chatting in MMPORPGs Peter Tyson
- Chatting in MMPORPGs J C Lawrence
- TECH: Mail (was On socialization and convenience) Chris Jones
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragmentation Derek Licciardi
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragmentation Sean Kelly
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragmentation Justin Rogers
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragmentation Chris Dern
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragmentation David Bennett
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragm entation Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragmentation Kwon Ekstrom
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragmentation Bruce Mitchener
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragmentation Adam Martin
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragm entation Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragmentation Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragm entation Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragmentation Derek Licciardi
- [TECH] String Classes, Memory Management, and Fragm entation Bruce Mitchener
- Mudpie Matt Mihaly
- strong encryption for authentication Fred Clift
- strong encryption for authentication David Bennett
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Edward Glowacki
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Derek Licciardi
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication shren
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Ben Tolputt
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Edward Glowacki
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Edward Glowacki
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Ben Tolputt
- strong encryption for authentication J C Lawrence
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Vincent Archer
- strong encryption for authentication Fred Clift
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- strong encryption for authentication Tamzen Cannoy
- strong encryption for authentication Sean Kelly
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Tamzen Cannoy
- strong encryption for authentication Travis Casey
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Travis Casey
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Travis Casey
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Travis Casey
- strong encryption for authentication Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- strong encryption for authentication Edward Glowacki
- strong encryption for authentication Matt Mihaly
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Freeman, Jeff
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Bruce Mitchener
- strong encryption for authentication Brian Price
- strong encryption for authentication Kevin Littlejohn
- strong encryption for authentication Brian Price
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- strong encryption for authentication Fred Clift
- strong encryption for authentication J C Lawrence
- strong encryption for authentication Robert Fleck
- strong encryption for authentication Sean Kelly
- strong encryption for authentication Edward Glowacki
- strong encryption for authentication Fred Clift
- strong encryption for authentication Fred Clift
- strong encryption for authentication J C Lawrence
- strong encryption for authentication Fred Clift
- strong encryption for authentication Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- strong encryption for authentication Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- strong encryption for authentication J C Lawrence
- strong encryption for authentication Oliver Jowett
- strong encryption for authentication Kwon Ekstrom
- strong encryption for authentication F. Randall Farmer
- strong encryption for authentication Kwon Ekstrom
- strong encryption for authentication J C Lawrence
- strong encryption for authentication Kwon Ekstrom
- strong encryption for authentication J C Lawrence
- strong encryption for authentication Dave Rickey
- strong encryption for authentication Jon Lambert
- strong encryption for authentication Dave Rickey
- strong encryption for authentication J C Lawrence
- Toward a Craftier Dragon Paul Schwanz
- Toward a Craftier Dragon Maximus
- Toward a Craftier Dragon rayzam
- Toward a Craftier Dragon Matt Owen
- Toward a Craftier Dragon Michael Tresca
- Toward a Craftier Dragon Travis Nixon
- Toward a Craftier Dragon Paul Schwanz - Enterprise Services
- Toward a Craftier Dragon Andrew Reisse
- Toward a Craftier Dragon J C Lawrence
- Toward a Craftier Dragon rayzam
- Toward a Craftier Dragon J C Lawrence
- Toward a Craftier Dragon rayzam
- Toward a Craftier Dragon Richard Aihoshi aka Jonric
- Toward a Craftier Dragon Michael Tresca
- Toward a Craftier Dragon John Hopson
- Toward a Craftier Dragon yospe@kanga.nu
- Grief players with ip/dns spoofers Tand'a-ur
- Grief players with ip/dns spoofers Sean Kelly
- Grief players with ip/dns spoofers J C Lawrence
- Grief players with ip/dns spoofers Greg Underwood
- Grief players with ip/dns spoofers Robert Fleck
- Grief players with ip/dns spoofers J C Lawrence
- Grief players with ip/dns spoofers Tand'a-ur
- Grief players with ip/dns spoofers Adam Martin
- Grief players with ip/dns spoofers J C Lawrence
- character transfer in EQ Matt Mihaly
- character transfer in EQ Derek Licciardi
- character transfer in EQ Dave Rickey
- character transfer in EQ Derek Licciardi
- character transfer in EQ S. Patrick Gallaty
- character transfer in EQ Michael Tresca
- DGN: Craftier dragon and players as GMs Mathieu Castelli
- DGN: Craftier dragon and players as GMs Matt Mihaly
- DGN: Craftier dragon and players as GMs Mathieu Castelli
- DGN: Craftier dragon and players as GMs Travis Nixon
- DGN: Craftier dragon and players as GMs Marian Griffith
- Biz/Media Peter Tyson
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? David Loeser
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Kwon Ekstrom
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Xuri
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Adam Martin
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Justin Rogers
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? David Loeser
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Matt Mihaly
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Matt Mihaly
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? luke@rocketship.com
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? J C Lawrence
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Freeman, Jeff
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Koster, Raph
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Freeman, Jeff
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Koster, Raph
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Joe Andrieu
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Koster, Raph
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? John Hopson
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Steve {Bloo} Daniels
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? J C Lawrence
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Travis Casey
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Joe Andrieu
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Dave Rickey
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Marc Bowden
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Sean K
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Freeman, Jeff
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Matt Mihaly
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Koster, Raph
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Dave Rickey
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? J C Lawrence
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Michael Tresca
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Trump
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Kristen L. Koster
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Sean Kelly
- To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- [NEWS] New MUD Magazine Derek Snider
- Real-world skills Was: strong encryption for authentication Travis Nixon
- Real-world skills Was: strong encryption for authentication Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Something in the water Koster, Raph
- Something in the water Dave Rickey
- Something in the water Koster, Raph
- Something in the water John Hopson
- Something in the water Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Something in the water J C Lawrence
- Something in the water Sean Kelly
- Something in the water rayzam
- Something in the water J C Lawrence
- Something in the water Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Something in the water J C Lawrence
- Something in the water Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Something in the water J C Lawrence
- Something in the water Travis Casey
- Something in the water J C Lawrence
- Something in the water Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Something in the water J C Lawrence
- Something in the water Joe Andrieu
- Something in the water Sean Kelly
- Something in the water Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Something in the water Hulbert, Leland
- Something in the water Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Something in the water Hulbert, Leland
- Something in the water Matt Mihaly
- Something in the water Jon Morrow
- Something in the water Trump
- Something in the water Matt Mihaly
- Something in the water Matt Chatterley
- Something in the water Sparrowhawk
- Something in the water Matt Mihaly
- Something in the water Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Something in the water Tamzen Cannoy
- Something in the water Matt Mihaly
- Something in the water Tomas Clark
- Something in the water Matt Mihaly
- Something in the water Marc Bowden
- Something in the water Koster, Raph
- Something in the water Jessica Mulligan
- Something in the water SavantKnowsAll@cs.com
- Something in the water Miroslav Silovic
- Something in the water Travis Casey
- Something in the water rayzam
- Something in the water Travis Casey
- Something in the water Ian Hess
- Something in the water Marc Bowden
- Something in the water J C Lawrence
- Something in the water Marc Bowden
- Something in the water J C Lawrence
- Something in the water Dave Rickey
- Something in the water Marc Bowden
- Something in the water Travis Casey
- Something in the water Marian Griffith
- Something in the water J C Lawrence
- Something in the water Eli Stevens
- Something in the water J C Lawrence
- Something in the water Adam Martin
- Something in the water Dave Rickey
- Something in the water Dan MacDonald
- Something in the water Adam Martin
- Something in the water John Hopson
- Something in the water rayzam
- Something in the water Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Gearing up against GEAR Ted Milker
- Gearing up against GEAR Dan MacDonald
- Gearing up against GEAR Sean Kelly
- Gearing up against GEAR Vincent Archer
- Gearing up against GEAR Travis Nixon
- Gearing up against GEAR Kevin Littlejohn
- Gearing up against GEAR Sean Kelly
- Gearing up against GEAR Justin Rogers
- Gearing up against GEAR Sean K
- Gearing up against GEAR Alistair Milne
- Gearing up against GEAR Travis Nixon
- Gearing up against GEAR Vincent Archer
- Gearing up against GEAR J C Lawrence
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- Gearing up against GEAR Marc Bowden
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- Gearing up against GEAR Travis Nixon
- Gearing up against GEAR F. Randall Farmer
- OT: Writer needs help from people in the gaming industry Alex Oren
- What is cheating? [Was: Strong encryption for authentication] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long) Robert Zubek
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- TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long) Joe Andrieu
- TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long) Robert Zubek
- TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long) J C Lawrence
- TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long) Caliban Tiresias Darklock
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- TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long) Robert Zubek
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- TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long) Adam Martin
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- TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long) Jon Lambert
- TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long) Robert Zubek
- TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long) Kevin Littlejohn
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- TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long) Robert Zubek
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- TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long) Robert Zubek
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- Real-world skills luke@rocketship.com
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- Design patterns for game database implementations Caliban Tiresias Darklock
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:13:57 -0400
Travis Casey <efindel@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Yep. I'm on a mailing list that discusses RPGs for children, and
> one topic that's come up there is using RPGs educationally.
> Here's an excerpt from a post from a while back there:
This sort of learning is both wonderful and remarkably easy to do.
In a prior life I taught at a small private school (Math and
Computing FWVLIW). I ran a series of courses with 5 and 6 year olds
using Logo. The basic pattern was fairly simple:
-- Have them rotely type in a set of Logo commands and watch what
the turtle draws. Ask then what they thought the commands meant
and how they worked. Repeat with new rote programs until they
have it figured out.
-- Give them a pre-drawn picture of a simple regular geometric
shape (square or triangle to start with) and ask them to draw it
with Logo. The goal is success through experimentation and
Newtonian approximation. Don't worry if they don't get it and
absolutely do NOT tell them how to do it. A surprising number of
kids will "invent" that technique for themselves as they go along,
and will then busily and happily teach it to all the rest).
-- Repeat with increasingly complex regular geometric shapes (ie
more sides). Just keep them busy experimenting and playing.
They'll figure out the rest. Some kids take 15 or so shapes
before they catch on. Some less.
-- Encourage them to work out a system for guessing what the
correct turn angle is for a regular shape of N sides. Most of the
kids at that age won't know multiplication and division, but they
will know how to add numbers and to then add repetitively. From
there's its just another Newtonian approximation question.
-- Repeat and continue with no right/wrongs until they've figured
out for themselves that the magic total is 360 and they know how
do the arithmetic for various shapes.
-- Now try fancy things. Houses. Pictures. Etc.
At every stage whatever they come up with is perfect colouring
material for art periods and is typically gleefully carted home to
the parents and the fridge door.
Form there its a small step, in the same
do-it-and-figure-out-what-you-did manner to introduce flow control,
looping, repetition, and most of the other basic concepts of logical
flow and programming -- with kids of 6 or 7 years old.
Good stuff.
> The whole point of this is that I used this to teach about the
> laws of supply & demand, marketing and so forth plus a healthy
> dose of percentage mathematics and the idea of "relative value."
> Plus "caveat emptor." Not bad for a four-hour game session.
Which is part of the approach I explicitly avoided: telling the kid
the answers and what they mean. I've found discovery much more
effective. I never told them any answers or what anything meant.
Occasionally (not often) I confirmed something they'd discovered,
but the brunt of it was all their's and stayed their's.
You might know, you'd better know -- you're the adult -- but that
doesn't mean you have to tell them. Just set them up in a position
where discovery is easy and then keep them in that position, using
repetition, variations, and all the other forms of play until they
do discover, then move on. MUDs are great for creating play
opportunities.
I had kids determining that 720 was the magic number, and so busily
made all their turn values add up to 720. As we didn't have a real
Logo robot turtle, just a triangular phosphor blip on the screen,
they couldn't see that this actually turned around twice -- which
was just fine. The fact that it was 720 instead of 360 (I didn't
introduce the concept of or word "degrees" as it was unnecessary and
would have been distractive at that point) didn't matter a hoot --
what they had worked and was __sufficiently__ accurate for them at
that time. Later, with other shaped in every case they would notice
and figure out that 360 was also a magic number and that the
arithmetic was easier with that number.
They'd figured out there was a magic number, that they knew what it
was, and how to use it. That was far more than good enough.
Refining that magic number was an easy step for some later
discovery.
ObNote: A similarly-run class in Texas had some slightly older kids
independently derived Pythagorean formulae without any adult
guidance (after-school play).
That's actually an amusing exercise: proving Pythagoras given
only a right triangle and a compass.
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- Community feeling (was: To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG?) Alex Kay
- Community feeling (was: To good to be TRUE, in an M MPORPG?) Koster, Raph
- Community feeling (was: To good to be TRUE, in an M MPORPG?) J C Lawrence
- Community feeling (was: To good to be TRUE, in an M MPORPG?) Vincent Archer
- Community feeling (was: To good to be TRUE, in an M MPORPG?) Koster, Raph
- Community feeling (was: To good to be TRUE, in an M MPORPG?) Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- Community feeling (was: To good to be TRUE, in an MMPORPG?) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Re:DNA Game Patent [was Randy's Resume] Jessica Mulligan
- Multi-threading ( was: TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long)) Jon Lambert
- Wilderness Freeman, Jeff
- Wilderness Trump
- Wilderness Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Wilderness Edward Glowacki
- Wilderness Dave Rickey
- Wilderness Sean Kelly
- Wilderness John Buehler
- Wilderness Brian Hook
- Wilderness John Buehler
- Wilderness Koster, Raph
- Wilderness Ling Lo
- Wilderness Freeman, Jeff
- Wilderness Nathan F. Yospe
- Wilderness Ling Lo
- Wilderness Nathan F. Yospe
- Wilderness John Buehler
- Wilderness Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Wilderness Hulbert, Leland
- Wilderness John Buehler
- Wilderness Kwon Ekstrom
- Wilderness Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Wilderness Matt Mihaly
- Wilderness Freeman, Jeff
- Wilderness John Buehler
- Wilderness Nathan F. Yospe
- Wilderness Travis Casey
- Wilderness Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Wilderness Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Wilderness Koster, Raph
- Wilderness Dave Rickey
- Wilderness Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Wilderness Brian Hook
- Wilderness Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Wilderness Brian Hook
- Wilderness Freeman, Jeff
- Wilderness Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- Wilderness Freeman, Jeff
- Wilderness John Buehler
- Wilderness lhulbert@hotmail.com
- Wilderness Matt Mihaly
- Wilderness John Buehler
- Wilderness Matt Mihaly
- Wilderness John Buehler
- Wilderness Matt Mihaly
- Wilderness Freeman, Jeff
- Wilderness Madrona Tree
- Wilderness Nathan F. Yospe
- Wilderness Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- Wilderness Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- Wilderness John Buehler
- Wilderness Adam Martin
- Wilderness Koster, Raph
- Wilderness John Buehler
- Wilderness Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- Wilderness Adam Martin
- Wilderness Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- Wilderness David Loeser
- Wilderness Matt Owen
- Wilderness Peter Tyson
- Wilderness Adam Martin
- Death among Friends Jon Morrow
- Death among Friends Tommy Wang
- Death among Friends Jon Morrow
- Death among Friends Matt Mihaly
- Death among Friends Jon Morrow
- Death among Friends Matt Mihaly
- Death among Friends shren
- Death among Friends Michael Tresca
- Death among Friends John Buehler
- Death among Friends Jon Morrow
- Death among Friends Matt Mihaly
- Death among Friends Michael Tresca
- BSD licenses Ross Dmochowski
- Hoping for more... (interfaces) Tommy Wang
- Hoping for more... (interfaces) Matt Mihaly
- Hoping for more... (interfaces) Ling Lo
- Hoping for more... (interfaces) Matt Mihaly
- Hoping for more... (interfaces) Jon Morrow
- Hoping for more... (interfaces) Kwon Ekstrom
- d20 shannon hall
- Group sizes and MUDs as sport? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- free release of graphical MUD Chris Gray