July 2006

• Welcome to MUD-Dev2 MUD-Dev2 Admin
• [ANNOUNCE] final testing for Dead Souls 2 Cratylus
• [REPOST] DGN: Text MUDs; in need of an (r)evolution? MUD-Dev2 Admin
• • [REPOST] DGN: Text MUDs; in need of an (r)evolution? willow reed
  • • [REPOST] DGN: Text MUDs; in need of an (r)evolution? Steve "Bloo" Daniels
  • [REPOST] DGN: Text MUDs; in need of an (r)evolution? Tess Snider
    On 7/11/06, MUD-Dev2 Admin <admin@mud-dev.com> wrote:
    > - Text MUDs should no longer require any kind of previous
    > knowledge with the genre. As a new player, I should be able to
    > start the game instantly and never feel as if I'm lost in some
    > arcane activity of which I have no clue where to go next.
    
    That pretty much rules out the entire family of roleplay MUDs, since
    their social customs are pretty damn arcane, before you even get to
    the formalized rules, such as they are. I think a lot of people have
    historically been scared away from these games, because of the high
    social barrier of entry.
    
    However, even for these, your point is not lost. While I think that
    most graphical MMOs are horrible places to try to roleplay, and I
    usually don't bother, I also find that the barrier of entry for
    roleplaying is relatively low. When you're dropped into the world,
    you immediately know what your role is, and people who look at you
    immediately have some notion of what to expect from you. Many races
    already have a well-established patois which can be easily mimicked.
    There are plenty of other things to do, aside from roleplaying, so you
    won't be ostracized, if you haven't really hit your stride with the
    small talk yet. It's much easier to ease your way into roleplaying a
    bit at a time, rather than deal with being thrown into the deep end to
    sink or swim.
    
    The interesting question is whether it's possible to provide the
    higher accessibility of this experience, with the higher
    signal-to-noise ratio of a purist text RP MUD -- or whether it's an
    unavoidable tradeoff, in the end.
    
    Tess
  • [REPOST] DGN: Text MUDs; in need of an (r)evolution? Tess Snider
  • [REPOST] DGN: Text MUDs; in need of an (r)evolution? Mike Rozak
  • • [REPOST] DGN: Text MUDs; in need of an (r)evolution? Tess Snider
• DGN Allowing Robots Johnicholas Hines
• [REPOST] Dynamic Quests & Event Chains MUD-Dev2 Admin
• • [REPOST] Dynamic Quests & Event Chains Johnicholas Hines
• [REPOST] DGN: MMOG Game Economies MUD-Dev2 Admin
• • [REPOST] DGN: MMOG Game Economies Ian Hess
  • [REPOST] DGN: MMOG Game Economies John Buehler
• [TECH] Implementing currency without implementing currency William Leader
• • [TECH] Implementing currency without implementing currency Nick Koranda
  • • [TECH] Implementing currency without implementing currency William Leader
  • [TECH] Implementing currency without implementing currency cruise
  • • [TECH] Implementing currency without implementingcurrency McDonald, Stephen
  • [TECH] Implementing currency without implementing currency Ben Sizer
  • [TECH] Implementing currency without implementing currency Craig T. Dalrymple
  • [TECH] Implementing currency without implementing currency Mike Rozak
• [ANNOUNCE] Dead Souls 2.1 is now available for download Cratylus
• [REPOST] Soapbox: World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things by David Sirlin Nick Koranda
• • [REPOST] Soapbox: World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things by David Sirlin Paolo Piselli
• [REPOST] Soapbox: World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things by David Sirlin Joh Nicholas Hines