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

Yira The Mystic: Do you expect me to reply?
Bateau: No Mr Yira The Mystic, I expect you to die!
>
>"Janne Raevaara" <jra...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:9jelvh$l69$1...@news.kolumbus.fi...
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>> 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...

If everyone sees the game world differently then it really hampers
interaction.
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