April 2009

• Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) Tiago
• • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) Siege)
  • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) Jacob Cord
  • • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) Jeffrey Kesselman
  • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) John A. Bertoglio
    Tiago wrote on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:56 AM
    
    > Hey all,
    >
    > I know that this question surfaces from time to time, but, what is your
    > opinion on developing text based muds these days ? I've started one from
    > scratch, as a hobby, and to experiment stuff like multithread programming
    > and creature AI without the hassle of building a GUI.
    >
    > I don't actually play any of those MMORPG's you all know and love :) (in
    > fact I stopped at some clone of Envy Mud 10 years ago), and I don't know
    > if
    > people still care about text based games.
    >
    > Of course there are some advantages like: the developers can focus
    > solely on gameplay and not on polygons, players can essentially connect
    > from anywhere anytime (you cannot have a WoW window open during your
    > working hours, but a telnet session will do fine), etc...
    >
    > Thing is, is it worth it? Will anyone still care ? Is it a waste of time?
    
    I have been dinking around with a text based mud for years. Like you, I
    haveused it as a test bed for technology I want to learn or expand.
    Clearly,this is not a broadly based commercial venture. However, there
    is still somelife in the genere. But I really think that telnet truly is
    dead. A 25x80character simply lacks the information density to build a
    UI that is bothpowerful AND easy to learn and use.
    
    My work is totally web based with large use of AJAX and positional CSS.
    Aweb based environment allows more accessibility and a much more
    "modern"look. There are ways to deal with the inherent stateless of the
    web. As longas you design a "relaxed" pace into the game, there is
    almost no downside.
    
    In addition, a web approach would allow you to add a nice Flex (or
    similar)interface down the road if that was required.
    
    
    John Bertoglio
    503.330.6713
    Consultant
    jb@co-laboratory.com
    www.co-laboratory.com
    im: jbertoglio@gmail.com
  • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) Galleus, the Sky Sovereign
  • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) Nabil Maynard
  • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) Fred Bauder
  • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) Aurel
  • • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) Tiago
  • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) matthew.owen@barclays.com
  • • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) Siege)
    • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) Tiago
    • • Text based MUD's - State of the art (if any) Davion Kalhen
• [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Matt Cruikshank
• • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Jeffrey Kesselman
  • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Jeffrey Kesselman
  • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Richard Boehme
  • • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Matt Cruikshank
    • • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Richard Boehme
      • • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Jeffrey Kesselman
        • • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Jeffrey Kesselman
          • • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Jeffrey Kesselman
          • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Matt Cruikshank
          • • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Jeffrey Kesselman
            • • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Jeffrey Kesselman
              • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Matt Cruikshank
              • • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier John Buehler
                • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Richard Boehme
                • • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Jeffrey Kesselman
              • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Matt Cruikshank
              • • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Siege)
  • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier R. Scott Kennan
  • • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier R. Scott Kennan
    • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Jeffrey Kesselman
  • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier John Buehler
  • • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Jeffrey Kesselman
    • [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier Matt Cruikshank