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
        • • 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
                      On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Morris Cox <morriscox@gmail.com> wrote:
                      > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:17 AM, cruise <cruise@casual-tempest.net> wrote:
                      >
                      >> Thus spake Kerry Fraser-Robinson...
                      >>
                      >>> I think "Persistent" is important. That tells people the it's a permanent
                      >>> place and will still be there when they are not. "Online" is important
                      >>> because it tells people where it is. And we've got all sorts of options for
                      >>> the word that tells people what it is such as world, game, dimension,
                      >>> universe, plane etc. Scrabble champions are best suited to help our cause I
                      >>> reckon. ;)
                      >>>
                      >>
                      >> Persistance Online World? POW!
                      >
                      >
                      > Or Massive Entertainment Online World (MEOW ).
                      >
                      > --
                      > Morris Cox
                      
                      I'm kind of tired of the "Massive" tag, but oddly I'm not tired of the
                      "Multi-player" term. And On-line is assumed in this internet age (I
                      would hope). But I do like words like "World" instead of "Dungeon" or
                      tagging everything as an RPG. Also I think avoiding dipthongs in your
                      acronyms (MEOW) might be a good idea.
                      
                      PVM - Persistent Virtual World. although not all of them are
                      Persistent, purely instant based graphical hack-and-slash (like Guild
                      Wars and Hellgate) are not normally considered Persistent. Although
                      your character and equipment do persist from game session to game
                      session, so in that sense it's as persistent as any typical table top
                      RPG group. Of course PVM doesn't actually spell anything like POW,
                      MEOW or MUD. Be it does sound need peeee-veeee-em.
                      
                      MVM - Multi-player Virtual World - maybe for virtual worlds that
                      aren't persistent?
                      
                      OW - Online World. you pronounce it like the risque title of a reality
                      TV show parody in Idiocracy. I insist you really have to shout it.
                      
                      MMM - Massively Multiplayer MUD - just like WWW but upside-down :D
                      
                      --
                      Jon Mayo
                      <jon.mayo@gmail.com>
              • 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