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23391: Re: [MUD-Dev] Dilemmas in a (game) designer's life ?
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From: shren <shren@io.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 08:48:44 -0500 (CDT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On 17 Apr 2002, Sasha Hart wrote:
> [Chris Jacobson]
>> It doesn't matter if it's the best thing since sliced bread, if
>> nobody can buy the thing. Rewrite what you have to, but only
>> what you must, unless you have spare time. Finish your product,
>> ship it, and move on. Apply what you learned to your next
>> project.
> On the other hand, you have the option of wearing the 'researcher'
> hat. This gives you a real, legitimate justification for producing
> almost nothing (except learning a lot). Remember, there are people
> who do research full time, including in engineering. MUD design
> seems hardly as nailed down even as engineering - although usually
> the orientation of a designer IS generating a product. In
> research, your product is what you learn and communicate.
I could see this. I've done a little of this - written a lot of
stuff, some (somewhat) mud-related, that never sees the outside
world. If you're going to do a *lot* of this, though, I'd make sure
to team up with an existing team or publish what you've done.
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