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<LI><em>From</em>: Matthew Mihaly <<A HREF="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:26:59 -0700 (PDT)</LI>
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On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
> 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? While I'm certain that most of these persons are very nice
> people and quite competent, just what do _they_ know about your game?
> 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)?
Well again, it's a matter of seperation of expertise, and of time. I COULD
code (or pay to have coded) a kick-ass custom client, but it just seems
like a waste. I'd have to have a java version for the web page
(incidentally, new users in Achaea never go through MS Telnet. They just
log in via our java client, which is shitty, but still better than MS
Telnet), a mac version, a unix version, and a pc version. It just doesn't
seem worth the effort to me. Maybe I'm being foolish, but our players
don't seem to care, and I'd rather spend my effort developing the game
itself.
--matt
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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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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
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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="00529" HREF="msg00529.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)y</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Sat 05 Jun 1999, 10:48 GMT
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