X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,898980d436245f34 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-29 14:34:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttln1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Yira The Mystic" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: <3b595df8.1142454@news.ntlworld.com> <9jelvh$l69$1@news.kolumbus.fi> Subject: Re: Uh? I don't know....what's it supposed to be? Lines: 57 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: <2k%87.5222$Ke4.3346270@news1.sttln1.wa.home.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 21:34:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.3.137.56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttln1.wa.home.com 996442494 65.3.137.56 (Sun, 29 Jul 2001 14:34:54 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 14:34:54 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:6787 "Janne Raevaara" wrote in message news:9jelvh$l69$1@news.kolumbus.fi... > > Max wrote in message > news:tlllvl9dom6u0b@corp.supernews.co.uk... > > MUDs, call me lame or whatever you will, but what are they? > > > > I have a little programming knowlege, and could quite easily create a text > > based game (like those books that you choose your own fate) with ASCII art > > that anyone would like to submit. But it's only an idea. > > MUD = Multi User Dungeon. Multiplayer games somewhere between original text > based adventures and nethack. With worst bits from both. > > Don't bother to code one. The code itself is not complex, but as with rpgs > and roguelikes the work to be done is enormous. And nobody plays them > anyways... > > One of the major enjoyments that Mudders have over you people who live and die by ultima online, diablo, everquest, and the such is the use of our IMAGINATIONS... On graphical user games... the designers lay out for you what the world will look like. In a mud (text based game), you take a couple lines of text, and imagine what you are seing... everyone can have a different "feel" or "thought" as to exactly what the room or object looks like... Graphical games are fun, no doubt, but once played, hmph... it's boring. Text based games change... you can go into one room hundreds of times and "see" something a little differently, and Muds are constantly changing... New areas and worlds, new ideas, new plots. I for one would love to see the end of the graphical generation... and see everyone start using the wonderful ability we ALL have of the imagination... DON'T be lead around by the computer tyrants that create the world you look at... Be lead around by the free-willed imagination inside your own mind. BTW... another great thought on the subject... Diablo II $59.99 ( prices local to me ) Diablo II expansion $39.99 ( prices local to me ) Muds $ FREE Muds Expansion I $ FREE Muds Expansion II $ FREE Muds Expansion III $ FREE . . Muds Expansion M $ FREE