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[Reup]

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Jan 5 2005, 02:07 PM
I played muds for a while, and it was very interesting. You just can't do a mud with graphics, else you got something like EverQuest and it just waste 80% of the potential...

The power of MUDs/Text-Based games/interactive novels, IMHO lies in the fact that it leaves so much to your own imagination. By saying stuff like:

"An old gnarled oak with crooked branches looms over you. The bark has been torn from it in many places, probably by strange animals and eerie sounds can be heard coming from between the braches. A small hole near the bottom emits a strange purple glow."

really makes you see the thing. Without having to resort to heavy hardware...

Edit: I should have read the previous post more thoroughly, which more or less says the same thing :whistle:

[wormpaul]

Text base games are just to difficult for me :not_ok:

[Sebatianos]

Originally posted by Reup@Jan 5 2005, 01:52 PM
Text Based gaming is like MUDding, but without the social obligation * And I like it!

Allthough there are a lot of people who don't consider MUDding social at all... nor gaming for that matter... e.g. my girlfriend* :whistle:

I feel your pain man!
But text based games really give you something to think about - plus I feel that all this clicking and moving simply makes people hate the keyboard, which is the most importaint link between the human and the computer ( :not_ok: mouse :not_ok: - except for our board regular mouse32).

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Whats MUDding?

Anyway Zork 2 was the only one I could handle. But even then I didn't get into it too much.

[Borodin]

Originally posted by Iron_Scarecrow@Jan 5 2005, 08:24 PM
Whats MUDding?

MUDs, MUCKs, MUSHES, etc: text-based online multiplayer games in a shared environment, run by admins, with many users. Quite a few are like Everquest, but without the graphics. Some strictly have a social function, instead. Others serve a particular purpose: the environment is tailored in a specific fashion, and visitors are expected to take tests. Many of these environments are for those among us who enjoy building secondhand: we don't develop the code, but we use it to create text-based rooms, with embedded objects that "do things" to other objects, including ourselves. There are literally more than half a thousand of these places on the Web, in English. I expect the total number exceeds a couple of thousand.

There are a few high-end, extremely sophisticated ones that are play-for-pay, only, where the user doesn't design, but only interacts with the gamemasters' creations.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Doesn't sound very interesting. Who would want to participate in that.

[Sebatianos]

Oh no! Our side is loosing on the pools... Vote for YES please or I'll break your knees. , nah not really, or...

-Sebatianos entered the room.
-Sees people voting for no.
-Starts breaking their knees.
-Possible exits - there are none.
What do you do: RUN
You can't your knee caps are smashed!
What do you do: VOTE YES
You can't you voted already.
What do you do: RECONSIDER
I don't know that word "Reconsider"
What do you do: CHANGE VOTE TO YES
By some merciful power your knees are heeled and you exit to a room full of willing maidens.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Well since I hadn't voted yet, I gave you your "yes". k:

Now where are these maidens? :whistle:

LOL

[Sebatianos]

Originally posted by Iron_Scarecrow@Jan 5 2005, 11:37 PM
Well since I hadn't voted yet, I gave you your "yes". k:

Now where are these maidens? :whistle:

LOL

Ah, you're after the prize! Just fall asleep and wait for the devine force to tell you -you shouldn't belive everything you read :bleh: .

[Iron_Scarecrow]

I'm dissapointed.