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
        John Bueher wrote:
        
        > 1. The assumption exists that a Personal Virtual World is a roleplaying
        > game
        > environment.
        
        Personally, I've just been thinking of the PVW is a place where people do
        stuff, although I didn't put that in my writeup. I have been mainly focusing
        on CRPG/adventure games, as you pointed out, but I try to keep ideas like a
        chess PVW in the back of my mind. (I am partial to CRPG/adventure.)
        
        
        > 2. The assumption exists that a Personal Virtual World is a stand-alone
        > environment.
        
        Yes. This is perhaps a bad assumption, but it's partially an artifact of my
        size. I don't expect to provide servers for PVW authors. Putting them all
        into the same environment is easier/cheaper, but it too has problems, such
        as the problems that neighbors are having in SL.
        
        
        > 3. The assumption exists that a Personal Virtual World is constructed
        > using
        > current development techniques (that exist to satisfy the needs of those
        > who
        > build games today).
        
        True. I can imagine how creation would get easier in the future,
        particularly as procedural animation gets better, and/or motion capture gets
        cheaper.
        
        
        Your other comments seem reasonable, although probably beyond the scope of
        what I'll manage. :-)
        
        Personally, I don't think 3d is end-all be-all, as was anticipated by VRML.
        3D has a time and place, just as text.
    • [Design] Personal virtual worlds Tess Snider
    • • [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
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    • • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives John Buehler
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        • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Davion Kalhen
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        • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Johnicholas Hines
        • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Matt Owen
      • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Michael Hartman
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    • • Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Morris Cox
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• Old MUD-Dev mailing list archives Mike Rozak