August 2006

• [REPOST] Soapbox: World of Warcraft Teaches the WrongThings by David Sirlin David Kennerly
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• DESIGN: MUD tutorials Mike Rozak
• • DESIGN: MUD tutorials Chris Richards
    On 8/21/06, Mike Rozak <Mike@mxac.com.au> wrote:
    > PS - I'm even more interested in tutorial tips targeted at completely-new never-played-a-MUD-before players, the sort you attract from casual web sites. The tutorial is for my game, preliminary web site at http://www.mxac.com.au/mif
    
    I've seen more and more games provide short, concise tutorials at the
    relevant moment. For instance, "You can pick up the torch by typing
    'get torch'." when the character first encounters a lootable object.
    It's relatively unobtrusive, can be disabled with a single command for
    the experience player, and it does not overload the player with
    information.
    
    Any stats on player retention for these types of tutorials?
    
    Cheers,
    Chris
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