ElegantMedia Games
intriguing text based multiplayer game environments
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online communities which are deep, not flat.
web communities are flat and prone to visual corruption. an all text or mostly text based environment where one must navigate is interesting. maybe the beauty in it is because it loses the “page” metaphor... but since one is constantly looking for metaphor it takes on the feeling of a deep space, a place, a portal. it is the power of the imagination. shadows, illuminations, what you cannot see the brain fills in with your own visions.
Examples
http://moolist.yeehaw.net - site with links to many of these things
LambdaMOO
telnet://ansiblemoo.org:8888
telnet://harpers-tale.com:7007
http://lingua.utdallas.edu/encore/ - MOO CMS ???
Terms to Know
- MOO: MUD Object Oriented or less commonly, Multi-User Object Oriented systems
- MUD: Multi-User Dungeon/Domain/Dimension
- MUSH: Multi-User Shared Hallucination
- MUVE: Multi-User Virtual Environment
- VEE: Virtual Educational Environment, a MOO for educational purposes
- OOP: Object Oriented Programming
- MOOCode: the language that MOOs are written in, a cross between C++ and LISP
- WWW: World Wide Web (you’re on it now!), referred to here as the Web
- WOO: Web-MOO, a MOO that has been put on and can be accessed from the Web
- WTP: WOO Transaction Protocol (learn about WTP)
- VR: Virtual Reality
- IRL: In Real Life
- RPG: Role-Playing Game
- IC: In Character; refers to RPGs
- OOC: Out Of Character; refers to RPGs
- CMC: Computer Mediated Communication
- CHIME: Collaborative Hyperarchical Integrated Media Environment
- EFL: English as a Foreign Language
- ESL: English as a Second Language
- moobie: A newbie (new person) on a MOO
- cyberspace: a virtual area for programming, chatting, and/or interaction created on the internet
- chatting: real time “talking” by typing between people
- sci-fi: science-fiction, a popular genre of usually futuristic, science-based fiction