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30094: Re: [MUD-Dev] MMORPG Cancellations: The sky is falling?
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From: Amanda Walker <amanda@alfar.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:13:18 -0400
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On Jul 14, 2004, at 10:27 AM, Sean Howard wrote:
> I doubt the pendulum will swing back. Gone are the days when
> interesting minds from the MUD world are hired for the sake of a
> new field.
Interestingly, some of them are still being hired for the sake of a
new field, but that field is not necessarily "commercial dungeon
crawl games" any more, for all that EQ remains a classic in that
genre.
There is a lot of MMO work going outside of the mass market
entertainment arena. There's a lot of work in areas like:
- Virtual & constructive distributed simulations for training and
evaluation
- Virtual MMO military training research
- Urban planning
> MMORPGs are an old field with lots of books written on them - so
> all the designers are going to come from traditional game industry
> sources.
I'd change that from "MMORPGs" to "RPGs". MMORPGs are still
relatively new, though there have been a recent flurry of books.
MUDs are older, but MUDs != RPGs. MUDRPGs are a subset of MUDs.
Amanda Walker
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