August 2008

• [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Soyweiser
• [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Peter Harkins
• • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Daniel James
  • • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Nick Koranda
  • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Christopher Lloyd
  • • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Nabil Maynard
    • • [Design] "Why Pirate Games" Article Nick Koranda
      • • [Design] "Why Pirate Games" Article Tess Snider
        • • [Design] "Why Pirate Games" Article Sean Howard
          • [Design] "Why Pirate Games" Article Caliban Darklock
        • [Design] "Why Pirate Games" Article Michael Hartman
      • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Matt Chatterley
      • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Siege)
      • • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Siege)
        • • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Mike Rozak
          • • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Siege)
            • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Acius
  • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Soyweiser
  • • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Adam Martin
    • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
      • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Sean Howard
        • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
          • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Aurel
            • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Caliban Darklock
              • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jeffrey Kesselman
            • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Mike Sellers
            • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
            • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Sean Howard
        • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD McDonald, Stephen
          Michael Harman sighed:
          > I really wish there was a way to get back to the very simple term:
          MUD.
          >
          > Multi User Dimension.
          >
          > This explains the general concept behind the genre so much
          > better than the crappy MMO/MMORPG acronyms.
          
          Except that MUD does not mean that for most people. The original
          meaning is usually given as Multi User Dungeon, possibly derived from
          the single-player game 'dungeon' which was modeled on 'adventure', back
          when dinosaurs ruled the earth and computers were huge mainframes. Ten
          or fifteen years later, dungeon became the basis for Zork. I remember
          playing dungeon on the old MULTICS computer.
          
          I don't think "Dungeon" is a positive description of most of the on-line
          games you are talking about.
          
          Steve McDonald
          steve.mcdonald@tufts.edu
        • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
          • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD John Szeder
            • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jon Mayo
              • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Crwth
              • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Siege)
              • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Soyweiser
        • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jeffrey Kesselman
        • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jon Mayo
          • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Raph Koster
            • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Kerry Fraser-Robinson
              • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD John Szeder
                • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD cruise
                • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Lachek Butalek
                  • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
                  • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Peter Keeler
                    • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jon Mayo
                      • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
                    • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Kerry Fraser-Robinson
                    • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD cruise
                      • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Adam Martin
                        • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Acius
                  • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Morris Cox
                  • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jon Mayo
              • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
              • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jeffrey Kesselman
              • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Raph Koster
      • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game John Buehler
• Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jeffrey Kesselman