February 2008

• Procedure as a solution for a growing set of stories Ian Hess
• [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? John A. Bertoglio
• • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Mike Rozak
  • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Sean Howard
• Specialization Paolo Piselli
• • Specialization Damion Schubert
• [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Aurel
• • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Jeffrey Kesselman
  • • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Aurel
    • • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Jeffrey Kesselman
• [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Bristle
• [ANNOUNCE] New LP lib packages available Cratylus
• • [ANNOUNCE] New LP lib packages available Michael Hartman
• [NEWS] NASA to explore strange, new virtual worlds Morris Cox
• [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Mike Rozak
• • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Jeffrey Kesselman
    On Jan 30, 2008 5:16 PM, Mike Rozak <Mike@mxac.com.au> wrote:
    > Several amateur MMORPG development kits are now on the market (Multiverse, Realmcrafter, Torque), with more to come. Some amateur authors are using the toolkits, but despite the fact that there are around 100x as many MMORPG players as MUD players, there only seem to be 10x as many amateur MMORPG authors as amateur MUD authors. Why is this? Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs?
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    > Why haven't amateur authors flocked to these tools?
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    Art costs are pretty heave for MMos.
    
    Still they occasionally crop up. There ae actually quite a few "free to
    play/pay for improvements" little MMOs around. Watch your google ads--
    I often see them in mine on gmail.
    
    Sometimes, you dont recognize them as amatures because of their success.
    I'd call Runequest an amature MMO. Certainly they were when they
    started.
  • • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Mike Sellers
    • • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Mike Rozak
    • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? John Szeder
    • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Tess Snider
    • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Scott Jennings
  • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Chris Laponsie
  • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Richard Boehme
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  • [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs? Morris Cox