Archive for March, 2006

sharing

OK, according to The Mudconnector there are:

47 Star Wars muds
37 World of Darkness muds

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Gimcrack’d

A new IF-like site medium:

Gimcrack’d

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putting the IF in MUD

One obvious way of including IF in a MUD is treating the IF like a quest, a specific part, even a modular part, that a PC takes action on. So the PC needs to go to some location or find an NPC.

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ye olde parser

…’twas a cold and stormy night.

On a gust of wind the oak door of Ye Olde Parser Inn slams open.

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swapping skins

A while back there was an interesting thread over at MudLab, about changing equipment in multi-dimensional movement.

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adding things

Just want to highlight the “IF to read” page I’m beginning.

Another notable development (not directly related to Kooneiform, I admit) is the new page over at SourceForge for Seyed’s mud project (I’m writing content). In early alpha, The Grid. The mud is written in java, uses XML docs for things like NPC scripts, and will be one of the few muds of its theme (in fact I can think of only one other mud with the same theme). So far it’s a fun project.

social warfare

What are the elements of a social warfare mud?

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PC groups

Most muds (perhaps all?) login new players as an individual PC. Many muds allow NPC pets and minions. I’d like to see more muds, or just a mud, that logins new players as a PC group — a collection of individuals.

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secrets and rumors

For my side mud project, Sub Rosa, I want to create a system of secrets and rumors, where the accumulation of ’secrets’ in-game and the manipulation of rumors increases a player’s influence.

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world-defined powers

Craig Perko wrote an interesting entry over at ProjectPerko about “time and space”.

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