May 2009

• MUD-based Articles for Hartford Gaming Lifestyle Examiner Michael Tresca
• opensim and muds in general bristle2008@yahoo.com
• [NEWS] mischief & opensim Bristle Mischief
• Since when has MUD-DEV become MUD-MARKETING Jeffrey Kesselman
• • Since when has MUD-DEV become MUD-MARKETING Caliban Darklock
  • Since when has MUD-DEV become MUD-MARKETING Sean Howard
  • Since when has MUD-DEV become MUD-MARKETING Nathan Yospe
  • Since when has MUD-DEV become MUD-MARKETING Nabil Maynard
  • Since when has MUD-DEV become MUD-MARKETING Threshold
• Since when has MUD-DEV become MUD-MARKETING bristle2008@yahoo.com
• • Getting the word out about your game Threshold
  • • Getting the word out about your game Ilia Malkovitch
• [Technology] Lend your ears to science! Mike Rozak
• • [Technology] Lend your ears to science! Jeffrey Kesselman
  • • [Technology] Lend your ears to science! Mike Rozak
    • • [Technology] Lend your ears to science! Jeffrey Kesselman
      • • [Technology] Lend your ears to science! Mike Rozak
      • [Technology] Lend your ears to science! Benjamin Tolputt
      • • [Technology] Lend your ears to science! Mike Rozak
• [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Mike Rozak
• • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Matt Owen
  • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Mike Sellers
  • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games John A. Bertoglio
    • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Mike Sellers
        John Bertoglio wrote:
        > ...
        > I expect that the dynamic I describe above is still with us.
        > Complex time schedules make most planned interaction tricky
        > if the numbers expand beyond a few. Ad hoc teaming has long
        > been a feature of non-Massive online games like
        > CounterStrike. Team play is not mandatory but in-game
        > mechanisms exist to make it possible for players to enforce
        > some degree of cooperation.
        >
        > I suspect a game that made grouping and cooperation a natural
        > extension of the design would find a good audience but that
        > this design goal would be a major challenge.
        
        It's been done, and extremley successfully. Games that make grouping and
        cooperation natural are the hottest part of gaming right now, IMO. They do
        this by making grouping mostly asynchronous and highly attractive, along
        with gameplay that is simple at first with increasing depth as you go on.
        They rely more on prior social relations than ad hoc groupings, but this is
        changing.
        
        There are many examples (in some cases, clones) of this, but see for example
        Mafia Wars. Unbelievably successful by any measure -- it has about as many
        players as WoW, cost a pittance to make, and earns tens of millions of
        dollars per year in revenue -- and it essentially requires various kinds of
        grouping and cooperation to get anywhere in the game.
        
        Mike Sellers
    • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Damion Schubert
    • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Richard A. Bartle
      • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Mike Rozak
      • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Mike Sellers
        • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Jeffrey Kesselman
          • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Mike Sellers
      • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games cruise
      • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolveto massively single-player games Mike Rozak
        • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolveto massively single-player games Mike Sellers
          • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolveto massively single-player games cruise
          • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolveto massively single-player games Dana V. Baldwin
            • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolveto massively single-player games Threshold
              • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolveto massively single-player games Dana V. Baldwin
                • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolveto massively single-player games Threshold
                  • Fallen Earth John A. Bertoglio
                  • • Fallen Earth Threshold
                    • Fallen Earth Mike Sellers
                    • • Fallen Earth Sean Howard
                      • • Fallen Earth Mike Sellers
                        • • Fallen Earth Amanda Walker
                          • • Fallen Earth Vincent Archer
                      • Fallen Earth John A. Bertoglio
                      • • Fallen Earth Mike Sellers
                        • • Fallen Earth Benjamin Tolputt
                          • • Fallen Earth Mike Sellers
                            • • Fallen Earth Sean Howard
                              • • Fallen Earth Mike Sellers
                                • • Fallen Earth Aurel
                      • Fallen Earth Damion Schubert
                      • • Fallen Earth Sean Howard
                        • • Fallen Earth Jeffrey Kesselman
                          • • Fallen Earth Threshold
                          • Fallen Earth Aurel
                          • • Fallen Earth John A. Bertoglio
                          • Fallen Earth Dana V. Baldwin
                          • • Fallen Earth Sean Howard
                          • Fallen Earth Tess Snider
                          • • Fallen Earth Sean Howard
                            • • Fallen Earth Tess Snider
                            • Fallen Earth Siege)
                            • • Fallen Earth Tess Snider
                              • • Comparing Worlds (was: Fallen Earth) Christopher Lloyd
                        • Fallen Earth Jeffrey Kesselman
                        • • Fallen Earth John A. Bertoglio
                        • Fallen Earth Mike Sellers
                    • Fallen Earth Matt Owen
                    • • Fallen Earth Threshold
      • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Vincent Archer
      • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games cruise
        • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Vincent Archer
          • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Sean Howard
  • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Threshold
  • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games cruise
  • • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Jeffrey Kesselman
  • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Aurel
  • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Amanda Walker
  • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Jeffrey Kesselman
  • [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games John Buehler
• [Design] Dinosaurs evolve to chickens, MMOs evolve to massively single-player games Bristle Mischief
• [Design] is home-base networks not possible? Bristle Mischief
• • [Design] is home-base networks not possible? Jeffrey Kesselman
  • • [Design] is home-base networks not possible? Siege)
    • [Design] is home-base networks not possible? Nuno Silva
    • • [Design] is home-base networks not possible? Jeffrey Kesselman
      • • [Design] is home-base networks not possible? Jeffrey Kesselman