Re: Uh? I don't know....what's it supposed to be?
From Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com>
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· 23 Jul 2001 08:08 · View full thread
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Lennert Stock: Do you expect me to reply? Bateau: No Mr Lennert Stock, I expect you to die! >On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:01:54 +0300, "Janne Raevaara" <jra...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >>> 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... > >Well that sounds like bullocks, if not, not very objective. >There are over 1500 muds out there, many with over 100 players >and 20+ coders on at all time, some over 10 years old. So for >these people the format must be doing something right. Actually, >MUD is the first proof of what will happen when vr's that my >grandma can use, hit the masses. If it works for you, tv-addiction >is paled compared to it. 100 players of a game is actually a microscopic amount. I still think it would be best to do a roguelike with ascii art in it cause I don't think it's ever been done before =) >(http://www.mudconnector.com/) >Granted, it isn't as popular as during the early 90ties, with >Quake and Ultima and all. I created most of my ascii stuff in >that period, for muds, as others did. >(http://www.lstock.demon.nl/htwteat3.html) >Right now I can't remember the last time I logged on to one, >though ;) (yes there's a paradox) -- | _ .\ ~~ _ ^~ | <')_,/ , ; .\ >(')__, . ` ' , ,______________._ | (_~=/ \._`.'. .\ (_~_/ _, '------:_______ ;==( *BANG* | ='- \=~_) ; .\ ~^~~^~ ` (_~_/ | | `-\ \ *BANG* | -'= .\ ~^~ ~^~~^~ `~' \_; |ICQ:11367619 EMAIL:bateau:-)jupiter-io.net SITE:www.flashback-aw.net
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