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Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds
- To: Mud Dev Mailing list <mud-dev#null,net>
- Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds
- From: Marian Griffith <gryphon#iaehv,nl>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:59:27 +0000 (GMT)
On Wed 21 Jan, Mike Sellers wrote:
> The nifty thing about a graphical world is that you can
> show the user the more detailed version of the object, but you don't have
> to actually *tell* them about it. So are those parts of the design on the
> chest really teeth, or am I imagining things? Is that a pin with a glob of
> poison on it, or just a trick of the light? Sometimes such ambiguities are
> easier to bring off with graphics than with plain text.
That's of course one of the problems with text. Because there is so little
information actually available, everything that -does- get mentioned tends
to become important, possible even out of proportion. When I describe some
landscape and mention there are dewdrops on the grass then the natural re-
action by the reader is to wonder why those dewdrops are important. They
are not but there is no escaping this habit. You can overcome it by provi-
ding so much detail that the dewdrops are but one of many but then you are
losing most of what makes text different from graphics (and have a lot to
write also ;).
Marian
--
Yes - at last - You. I Choose you. Out of all the world,
out of all the seeking, I have found you, young sister of
my heart! You are mine and I am yours - and never again
will there be loneliness ...
Rolan Choosing Talia,
Arrows of the Queen, by Mercedes Lackey
- Thread context:
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds, (continued)
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds,
Mike Sellers mike#online-alchemy,com, Wed 21 Jan 1998, 16:30 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds,
Mike Sellers mike#online-alchemy,com, Wed 21 Jan 1998, 16:30 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds,
Brandon J. Rickman ashes#pc4,zennet.com, Thu 22 Jan 1998, 07:30 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds,
Brandon J. Rickman ashes#pc4,zennet.com, Sun 25 Jan 1998, 23:14 GMT
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