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From: Matt Mihaly <the_logos@achaea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:07:27 +0000 (GMT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Christopher Allen wrote:
> "Luke Parrish" <luke@rocketship.com>:
>> How about instead of MUD/MUSH/MUCK/MOO we just use MIF,
>> Multi-player Interactive Fiction to describe the whole genere?
> Just an aside, we have been describing at our web site and in
> business plan for several years as what Skotos does as
> "multiplayer text-dominant interactive fiction games". However, we
> have never attempted to acronymize it.
We used to (and I think one of our banner ads still does) refer to
Achaea as an "interactive novelworld" mainly because we didn't want
to be associated with the same genre as the thousand junky stock
MUDs run by psychotic 16 year olds.
--matt
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