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From: ling.lo@coment.dk
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:02:53 +0200
Organization: Kanga.Nu
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".
Graphical - As above. It has been observed that breathing avatars
in a 3D MMO add to the atmosphere immensely. It's not a lot and
doesn't even involve server load.
It's also useful for clueless men unable to decipher body language
(i.e. me).
Regards,
Ling Lo
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Email: ling@coment.dk
Mobile: +45 2968 2768
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