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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Introduction</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Mik Clarke <<A HREF="mailto:mikclrk#ibm,net">mikclrk#ibm,net</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 22:20:34 +0000</LI>
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Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
> Mik clarke wrote:
> >Text based ones with autonomus mobs, as opposed to mass simulations or
> >3D graphics extravganzas.
>
> YES! Cool! Another one! And here I thought I was alone.
*grin*.
> >I feel there's a lot of life left in text
> >based interfaces and that they give the best return on effort.
>
> Since I've recently come to a tentative agreement with a text-based game
> author on resuming development of his game, I'd have to agree. We're still
> talking price, but we're pretty committed to bringing the game back.
>
> Now, agreed, you have to be pretty nuts to try and port a DOS real mode
> single-client game to the internet... but I never claimed to be sane. At
> least the networking is trivial. ;)
Sounds good. If you're looking for insiration, I've got a
single-adventurer program engine written in Java. Adventures are
written in HTML like files, should be able to play them off of the web
(if I can persuade Netscape to run it). Mean while it runs in
application mode. You can find more details and a download (along with
half an adventure) at:
<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/2260/explore/expweb.html">http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/2260/explore/expweb.html</A>
It's more for the numbered paragraphs type of adventure, but you can get
some fairly sophisticated results with it.
> >They
> >also tend to give far richer games than most of the graphical ones I've
> >seen. Good text is fairly easy to do, but good graphics?
>
> Depends on your definition of "rich" -- some people think looking good is
> plenty rich enough, no matter what the game itself is like. Many of those
> people have money and will spend forty bucks on a game because it looks
> good. As a result... lots of very pretty games that suck come out every
> year. That also means I don't buy many games, and that I don't find fancy
> graphics appealing.
Yeah, pretty but shallow. Unfortunately when it comes to amatures (like
most mudders), the result tends to be ugly and shallow (but with
promise). I like the brevity (and low bandwidth) of text and the
pictures a few sentences can draw in peoples imagination are better than
any sort of artwork that can be producted as fast.
Mik
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<LI><STRONG>[MUD-Dev] Re: mud client development systems</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00958" HREF="msg00958.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: mud client development systems</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sun 13 Dec 1998, 07:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00915" HREF="msg00915.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Introduction</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Mon 07 Dec 1998, 04:43 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00929" HREF="msg00929.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Introduction</A></strong>,
Mik Clarke <a href="mailto:mikclrk#ibm,net">mikclrk#ibm,net</a>, Mon 07 Dec 1998, 21:14 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00943" HREF="msg00943.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Introduction</A></strong>,
Mik Clarke <a href="mailto:mikclrk#ibm,net">mikclrk#ibm,net</a>, Wed 09 Dec 1998, 07:15 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00947" HREF="msg00947.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Introduction</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Wed 09 Dec 1998, 07:59 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00973" HREF="msg00973.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Introduction</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 16 Dec 1998, 05:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00934" HREF="msg00934.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Introduction</A></strong>,
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