January 2007

• The Great Mud Survey Michael Hartman
• • The Great Mud Survey John Buehler
• Community Play (Was: The Great Mud Survey) Dana V. Baldwin
• • Community Play (Was: The Great Mud Survey) cruise
• [DESIGN] Interactive fiction equation Mike Rozak
• • [DESIGN] Interactive fiction equation Johnicholas Hines
  • • [DESIGN] Interactive fiction equation Mike Rozak
  • [DESIGN] Interactive fiction equation cruise
  • • [DESIGN] Interactive fiction equation Mike Rozak
• The Great Mud Survey John Arras
• [Design] Personal virtual worlds Mike Rozak
• • [Design] Personal virtual worlds cruise
  • • [Design] Personal virtual worlds John Buehler
    • • [Design] Personal virtual worlds Mike Rozak
    • [Design] Personal virtual worlds Tess Snider
      Really, I'm surprised you even devoted that much time to addressing
      PVWs, in the first place! To me, they just don't make any sense at
      all.
      
      Personally, I don't see a large demand for the ability to make PVWs.
      The horrible truth is that most people are consumers. They may have
      all kinds of ideas about what kind of world they would like to make,
      but would balk at the amount of work required to make it a reality --
      even with the easiest of toolkits. They love customizing things --
      and by all means, we should let them. But, creating and maintaining
      worlds is not the kind of work that just anyone can or even wants to
      do.
      
      Oh, people can point to YouTube all day, but seriously, how much work
      does it take to make a short film of a bride freaking out about her
      hair, compared the amount of work it takes to create and maintain a
      world?
      
      Builders are a rare and wonderful breed. I'm all for giving them good
      tools. But I don't see a future where "millions of people" make their
      own worlds. There's not enough payoff for the amount of work
      involved.
      
      I think that when most of our friends are game developers, sometimes
      we forget that we're weird. :)
      
      Tess
    • • [Design] Personal virtual worlds Mike Rozak
      • • [Design] Personal virtual worlds Dave Scheffer
• Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Richard Tew
• • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Davion Kalhen
  • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Nick Koranda
  • • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Nick Koranda
    • • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives John Buehler
      • • [Meta] Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Matt Chatterley
        • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Davion Kalhen
        • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Davion Kalhen
        • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Johnicholas Hines
        • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Matt Owen
      • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Michael Hartman
    • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Raph Koster
    • • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Morris Cox
      • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Matt Chatterley
• Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Mike Rozak