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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@verant.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:57:34 -0700
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ling.lo@coment.dk
> The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs and Body Language
> Cues:
> http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm
> Application to MMO's:
> Text-medium - Subtle clues for npcs to emit which do not stick
> out but, rather, provide ambience. As Larry Niven once wrote
> (this is horribly paraphrased): You can do funky things in
> sci-fi literature, instead of "The door opened", you can write
> "The door dilated".
The term is "to heinlein" as the precise example is from Heinlein's
story "Gulf" I believe. The term is apparently commonly used in
workshops such as Clarion (and Turkey City, which I am currently a
member of).
-Raph
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