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How about a Glitch mud?
Okay. We were talking about this on global chat:
How about a Glitch mud? Or a Glitch muck?
If you've ever coded a mud, you know it's pretty easy to build areas. We'd lose some of the platform aspect of the game, but what we all say we'd miss is the community. I have to say that I loved muds for community: it's a game, sure, but people mostly sit around and talk while playing idly.
There are a LOT of programmers playing on Glitch, and LPC is easy enough for even crappy non-programmers like me to pick up the basics. A lot of the rooms would also be cut'n'paste on the code part, and the actual descriptions would be the bulk of the work, which is where the eager non-programmers could help a lot.
LPC's good for random events, quests, variable descriptions dependent on player input or other factors in the room ...
We'd need Tiny Speck's permission because of copyright issues, and also I doubt we'd guess at everything from our collected player memories.
So: how about it? Who's in? I am.
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If it's a web based mud, it could still have all the graphics, actually. Just not animated. Much.
If this gets done, I'd be a periodic resident! - This is a cool idea!
- I was thinking about something like this myself. There is a program called QUEST. It is a text based game creator. I was having a play around with it a few nights ago when I thought of the idea. I'd definitely be up for this.
- This is a great idea!! I'd be happy to help with any descriptions, and such. No programming though.
- I would love this.