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From: Mik Clarke <mikclrk@attglobal.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 18:41:23 +0000
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Matthew Mihaly wrote:
>
> I don't feel that a play has much to do with the overall experience of an
> MMORPG. A play is a singular experience with a beginning and a definite
> end. There's no such thing as the centerpiece of a player's story in a
> MMORPG because it's not just a sequence of rigidly defined experiences,
> like a play or most videogames are.
Think of their whole life as a play made up of lots and lots of short,
more or less interconnected scenes. Like chapters in a book or scenes
in a road movie. There is a story there - the story of A Player and
it interacts with the stories of all of the other players. Can a mud
survive without giving each player a chance to create their own fairly
rewarding story?
Mik
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