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8191: [MUD-Dev] Re: Storytelling vs. Simulationist (Was Re: Room de scriptions)
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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@origin.ea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 10:12:20 -0500
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Caliban Tiresias Darklock [mailto:caliban@darklock.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 02, 1998 9:53 PM
> To: mud-dev@kanga.nu
> Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: Storytelling vs. Simulationist (Was Re: Room
> descriptions)
>
>
> My take on why this happens is reasonably well-defined. The
> imps and imms on a MUD are generally people educated and interested in
the
> sciences, and as such they value the control structures of a MUD --
[snip]
> The folks who run a MUSH, on the other hand, tend to be educated in
the
> "softer" disciplines of psychology, literature, philosophy, all those
> subjects which we laughingly refer to as the "humanities" (would that
> make the sciences "inhumanities"?) -- and as a
> result, they have a general distrust of and often a disdain
> for those same control structures.
Interesting. Then perhaps a partial explanation for the way in which
Legend layered dramatist-style play on top of a gaming environment lies
in the fact that its original cast of immortals were a programmer, a
historian, a writer, a sociologist, and an economist...
-Raph