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<LI><em>Date</em>: Sun, 31 Aug 97 12:00:32 -0700</LI>
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On 28/08/97 at 11:01 PM, cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA (Chris
Gray) said: >[Travis C:]
>:I can't think of *any* SF or fantasy world that doesn't mostly
>:resemble RL, and I think there's a good reason for that. Quite
>:simply, if you came up with a world that was different from RL even
>:down to the basics, there would be no frame of reference for readers
>:or players to understand things -- the only real possibility would be
>:to start things off with a long lecture about what the basic rules of
>:this world are. Even then, most people probably wouldn't be able to
>:"wrap their heads around it."
>Perhaps that just means we have to try harder. I agree that it would
>be quite difficult to play such a game, but it might be fun to try.
>Consider what is available in some of the MUD servers we have talked
>about here: persistent language, free user programming, perhaps some
>good multimedia effects, etc. Ok, so do away with any attempt to have
>English-like input, and just use the system's programming language.
>Players would have to add routines to customize things to make it
>easier to use - fine, they would each do it a bit different, and
>perhaps even drastically differenty. How do you interact with others?
>Well, you can send multimedia effects (sounds, mathematical drawings
>and animations, etc.) at them. You can run programs that do things
>over time to and near them. Perhaps you can modify the environment
>they see (in terms of the program code they can see, the stored
>values they see, etc.). What would be the point? Who knows - it would
>have to be tried, before we could readily guess what the point might
>be, or what might or might not be fun. Combat could literally be
>programming, as could socializing -
>offer some of your fun stuff to others in exchange for some of
>theirs; exchange tips on things that have worked. The kind of
>interface in that CACM article we talked about a month ago might be
>useful here.
A hoorendously long quote to merely add a "Me too!", but that is
precisely my point, and is probably a key factor in why my approach
has wandered so far from the mainstream (and perhaps why it so
resembles the above???).
<bow>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01022" HREF="msg01022.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Tue 02 Sep 1997, 19:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00878" HREF="msg00878.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Sun 31 Aug 1997, 09:40 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00798" HREF="msg00798.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Thu 28 Aug 1997, 03:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00836" HREF="msg00836.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Fri 29 Aug 1997, 06:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00899" HREF="msg00899.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00915" HREF="msg00915.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Travis Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</a>, Sun 31 Aug 1997, 20:37 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00917" HREF="msg00917.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Sun 31 Aug 1997, 21:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01023" HREF="msg01023.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Tue 02 Sep 1997, 19:46 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00922" HREF="msg00922.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
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