Re: Uh? I don't know....what's it supposed to be?

"Janne Raevaara" <jra...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9jelvh$l69$1...@news.kolumbus.fi...
>
> Max <No...@home.anymore> wrote in message
> news:tll...@corp.supernews.co.uk...
> > MUDs, call me lame or whatever you will, but what are they?
> >
> > I have a little programming knowlege, and could quite easily create a
text
> > based game (like those books that you choose your own fate) with ASCII
art
> > that anyone would like to submit. But it's only an idea.
>
> MUD = Multi User Dungeon. Multiplayer games somewhere between original
text
> based adventures and nethack. With worst bits from both.
>
> Don't bother to code one. The code itself is not complex, but as with rpgs
> and roguelikes the work to be done is enormous. And nobody plays them
> anyways...
>
>

One of the major enjoyments that Mudders have over you people who live and
die by ultima online, diablo, everquest, and the such is the use of our
IMAGINATIONS... On graphical user games... the designers lay out for you
what the world will look like.  In a mud (text based game), you take a
couple lines of text, and imagine what you are seing... everyone can have a
different "feel" or "thought" as to exactly what the room or object looks
like... Graphical games are fun, no doubt, but once played, hmph... it's
boring. Text based games change... you can go into one room hundreds of
times and "see" something a little differently, and Muds are constantly
changing... New areas and worlds, new ideas, new plots.

I for one would love to see the end of the graphical generation... and see
everyone start using the wonderful ability we ALL have of the imagination...
DON'T be lead around by the computer tyrants that create the world you look
at... Be lead around by the free-willed imagination inside your own mind.

BTW... another great thought on the subject...

Diablo II                $59.99 ( prices local to me )
Diablo II expansion      $39.99 ( prices local to me )


Muds                     $ FREE
Muds Expansion I         $ FREE
Muds Expansion II        $ FREE
Muds Expansion III       $ FREE
.
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Muds Expansion M         $ FREE

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