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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>: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:46:05 -0700</LI>
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On 02:46 PM 6/4/99 +00-05, I personally witnessed Jon A. Lambert jumping up
to say:
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>Many of us here are designing games, or what we hope to pass off on the
>unsuspecting user as games. <grin>
I think I'm designing the latter. ;)
>Why then do we take our lovingly crafted and painstakingly complex
>"games" and surrender complete control of the user interface and
>presentation to the likes of Nick Gammon, Ken Keys, Kathleen MacMahon,
>and Zugg?
Because we want to build games, not user interfaces? I mean, I suspect
that's why the main server loop of damn near every MUD is almost identical:
we don't want to write network code, either. ;)
>While I'm certain that most of these persons are very nice
>people and quite competent, just what do _they_ know about your game?
Nick and I will probably work together on enhancing and extending
MUSHclient to be a very competent UU interface. It's good to know a client
author or two.
>Does it bother anyone that the vast majority of _newcomers_ to mudding
>will be entering your world via clicking a web page link and seeing a
>badly wrapped and ill-formatted hard to read white screen with black
>letters (MS Telnet)?
That bothers me greatly, actually, BUT -- I insist on being prepared for
it. IOW, if you use that default telnet client to connect, you should be
able to play the game just as well as anyone else.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00475" HREF="msg00475.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:sarapis#achaea,com">sarapis#achaea,com</a>, Fri 04 Jun 1999, 05:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00476" HREF="msg00476.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Fri 04 Jun 1999, 06:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00483" HREF="msg00483.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Fri 04 Jun 1999, 15:40 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00491" HREF="msg00491.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Fri 04 Jun 1999, 18:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00500" HREF="msg00500.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Fri 04 Jun 1999, 21:51 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00508" HREF="msg00508.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Fri 04 Jun 1999, 22:45 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00512" HREF="msg00512.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Sat 05 Jun 1999, 00:51 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00514" HREF="msg00514.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Interface/Custom Clients</A></strong>,
Greg Miller <a href="mailto:gmiller#classic-games,com">gmiller#classic-games,com</a>, Sat 05 Jun 1999, 01:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00524" HREF="msg00524.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)y</A></strong>,
Mark Gritter <a href="mailto:mark#erdos,Stanford.EDU">mark#erdos,Stanford.EDU</a>, Sat 05 Jun 1999, 04:56 GMT
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