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25019: Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: MUD-Dev Storytelling in MMOGs article

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From: "Valerio Santinelli" <tanis@mediacom.it>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:13:21 +0200
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From: "Jessica Mulligan" <jessica@mm3d.com>

> He seems to fall into the common trap of many inexperienced MMP
> designers; he seems to feel he has to ram a story down the
> player's throat by providing a beginning, middle and end.  In
> other words, the designer as controller and the player as
> follower.  That doesn't work very well in these games, certainly
> not as well as empowering the players to create their own content.

I've got exactly the same feeling as you.  What I have not yet seen
around is someone actually developing tools for players to use to
craft their own content in heavy graphical MMOGs.

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