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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@origin.ea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:24:06 -0500
Organization: Kanga.Nu
Excellent, more to add to the list.
BTW, I am adding these on a webpage at
http:///mud.sig.net/raph/gaming/laws.html so you can see them as they
get added. They are all being duly credited, of course. :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darrin Hyrup [mailto:shades@mythicgames.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 1998 9:24 PM
> To: mud-dev@kanga.nu
> Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design
> Btw, since you probably have no idea who I am... in my tenure in the
> commercial MUD biz, I've worked as a designer and/or
> programmer on Gemstone
> (during the early years on GEnie), Dragon's Gate (in all its
> incarnations,
> currently on AOL), Darkness Falls (currently on AOL and Gamestorm) and
> Magestorm (a graphical MUD of sorts, also available on AOL
> and Gamestorm.)
> I've also worked on a lot of non-MUD related online games to
> which many of
> the same "laws of online world design" apply.
Sounds like you probably have some war stories to tell. I'm sorry you
don't have more time to post. :(
> Like most of you, I am also developing my version of the "Ultimate MUD
> Server / Ultimate MUD Universe" which, as usual, is more an
> exercise in
> design technique than anything else, and may never see the
> light of day.
Anything you can share?
-Raph