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<LI><em>From</em>: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 23:05:38 -0700</LI>
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On 09:41 PM 9/2/98 -0700, I personally witnessed Ben Greear jumping up to say:
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>So, who here is considering writing a server that talks (only)
>with a graphical client. And not just a web browser. I'm talking
>fully 3-d rendering with all the assembly (or whatever) that goes
>with it.
You mean like Quake? <GDR>
I have some fundamental problems with the idea of this, namely that in
order to create a client and server that do this effectively, you have to
make some pretty severe tradeoffs in functionality. But that's a big hairy
religious issue, so I'll just leave it at saying "I don't think a graphical
client would appropriately or effectively support what I want to do."
And yes, a lot of people are discussing this sort of thing. I don't know
how seriously they're considering it, but I've often thought that it might
be very cool indeed to do something with an interface very much like
Dungeon Keeper -- you look at the world in a sort of 3D isomorphic view
most of the time, for perspective, but you can jump down into first-person
mode and get that full rendering effect. (Of course, DK's rendering is a
lot more like Doom than Quake... and honestly, the build interface is more
or less like Wolf3D.)
It might be really cool to do a graphical/text client. Something where you
can have a text mode interface *and* a graphical interface. I'd like that a
lot. I'd be really impressed by it. I'd jump from mode to mode depending on
what I was doing. Hanging around chatting, use text mode. Exploring, use
isomorphic. Fighting, use first person. That would rock.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00921" HREF="msg00921.html">[MUD-Dev] Wild idea.. :)</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Thu 03 Sep 1998, 04:45 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00922" HREF="msg00922.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Wild idea.. :)</A></strong>,
Marc Hernandez <a href="mailto:marc#jb,com">marc#jb,com</a>, Thu 03 Sep 1998, 05:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00938" HREF="msg00938.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Wild idea.. :)</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Fri 04 Sep 1998, 04:14 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00946" HREF="msg00946.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Wild idea.. :)</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Fri 04 Sep 1998, 18:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00923" HREF="msg00923.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Wild idea.. :)</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 03 Sep 1998, 06:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00929" HREF="msg00929.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Wild idea.. :)</A></strong>,
Adam J. Thornton <a href="mailto:adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU">adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU</a>, Thu 03 Sep 1998, 15:23 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00941" HREF="msg00941.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Wild idea.. :)</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Fri 04 Sep 1998, 05:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00953" HREF="msg00953.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Wild idea.. :)</A></strong>,
Vadim Tkachenko <a href="mailto:vt#freehold,crocodile.org">vt#freehold,crocodile.org</a>, Sat 05 Sep 1998, 01:23 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00959" HREF="msg00959.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Wild idea.. :)</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Sat 05 Sep 1998, 03:35 GMT
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