Comments on: Are MUDs and MMORPGs the same thing? http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/31/are-muds-and-mmorpgs-the-same-thing/ Raph Koster's personal website: MMOs, gaming, writing, art, music, books Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:02:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Welcome back to me! - Top Mud Sites Forumhttp://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/31/are-muds-and-mmorpgs-the-same-thing/comment-page-3/#comment-161903 Welcome back to me! - Top Mud Sites Forum Wed, 05 May 2010 19:31:13 +0000 http://www.raphkoster.com/?p=417#comment-161903 [...] Personally I consider them to be pretty much the same. Or as Raph Koster phrased it in his article Are MUDs and MMORPGs the same thing?, "...in many ways, there are far larger differences between certain kinds of text muds than [...]

[...] Personally I consider them to be pretty much the same. Or as Raph Koster phrased it in his article Are MUDs and MMORPGs the same thing?, "…in many ways, there are far larger differences between certain kinds of text muds than [...]

]]> By: MMORPGs: just another stick in the MUD « Thumb Butlerhttp://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/31/are-muds-and-mmorpgs-the-same-thing/comment-page-3/#comment-134601 MMORPGs: just another stick in the MUD « Thumb Butler Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:20:52 +0000 http://www.raphkoster.com/?p=417#comment-134601 [...] Are MUDs and MMORPGs the same thing? [...]

[...] Are MUDs and MMORPGs the same thing? [...]

]]> By: Guild Wars PT :: Fansite Português - Bem-vindo ao mundo dos Graphical MUDshttp://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/31/are-muds-and-mmorpgs-the-same-thing/comment-page-3/#comment-130773 Guild Wars PT :: Fansite Português - Bem-vindo ao mundo dos Graphical MUDs Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:00:55 +0000 http://www.raphkoster.com/?p=417#comment-130773

[...] que esteve ligado à criação de jogos como Ultima Online e Star Wars Galaxies) defende no seu site esta ideia. Outros optam por tratar os dois conceitos, embora com muitas similaridades, de forma [...]

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[...] Your page is on StumbleUpon [...]

]]> By: Love of Small MU*s - Top Mud Sites Forumhttp://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/31/are-muds-and-mmorpgs-the-same-thing/comment-page-3/#comment-129065 Love of Small MU*s - Top Mud Sites Forum Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:14:13 +0000 http://www.raphkoster.com/?p=417#comment-129065

[...] Re: Love of Small MU*s Incidentally, good post from Raph on this very subject: Raph’s Website » Are MUDs and MMORPGs the same thing? [...]

]]> By: Raph’s Website » Categories of virtual worldhttp://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/31/are-muds-and-mmorpgs-the-same-thing/comment-page-3/#comment-128302 Raph’s Website » Categories of virtual world Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:10:00 +0000 http://www.raphkoster.com/?p=417#comment-128302 [...] where I point people at a few lengthy posts from the past, such as the one where I point out that client display is irrelevant to whether or not something is a virtual world. After all, Second Life with no users logged in is still a virtual world. Second Life with a [...]

[...] where I point people at a few lengthy posts from the past, such as the one where I point out that client display is irrelevant to whether or not something is a virtual world. After all, Second Life with no users logged in is still a virtual world. Second Life with a [...]

]]> By: who came up with the rectangular coordinate system and what else do we call?: Web Search Results from Answers.comhttp://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/31/are-muds-and-mmorpgs-the-same-thing/comment-page-3/#comment-126921 who came up with the rectangular coordinate system and what else do we call?: Web Search Results from Answers.com Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:42:35 +0000 http://www.raphkoster.com/?p=417#comment-126921 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] coordinate system is called Cartesian, and it is the one ...www.scifi-az.com/articles/wwsf1006.pdfRaph’s Website » Are MUDs and MMORPGs the same thing?What it cannot do is add a Cartesian coordinate system on top of a world that lacks one. ...... As [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%-->

[...] coordinate system is called Cartesian, and it is the one …www.scifi-az.com/articles/wwsf1006.pdfRaph’s Website » Are MUDs and MMORPGs the same thing?What it cannot do is add a Cartesian coordinate system on top of a world that lacks one. …… As [...]

]]> By: Mind Booster Noori: Another day of linkshttp://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/31/are-muds-and-mmorpgs-the-same-thing/comment-page-3/#comment-125364 Mind Booster Noori: Another day of links Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:39:01 +0000 http://www.raphkoster.com/?p=417#comment-125364 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] written from a Virtual World's guru telling what I've been trying to tell people for years now: MUDs and MMORPGs are the same thing.cog is now officially the new TPF Community Relations Leader, congrats!When IP laws go into Virtual [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%-->

[...] written from a Virtual World’s guru telling what I’ve been trying to tell people for years now: MUDs and MMORPGs are the same thing.cog is now officially the new TPF Community Relations Leader, congrats!When IP laws go into Virtual [...]

]]> By: Raph’s Website » SL in a browserhttp://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/31/are-muds-and-mmorpgs-the-same-thing/comment-page-3/#comment-125313 Raph’s Website » SL in a browser Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:16:40 +0000 http://www.raphkoster.com/?p=417#comment-125313 [...] Log in here to try out an Ajax client that talks to Second Life and gives you access to the basics of chat and teleportation. It’s the work of a student named Katharine Berry, and a great demonstration of why MUDs and MMORPGs (and virtual worlds!) are the same thing. [...]

[...] Log in here to try out an Ajax client that talks to Second Life and gives you access to the basics of chat and teleportation. It’s the work of a student named Katharine Berry, and a great demonstration of why MUDs and MMORPGs (and virtual worlds!) are the same thing. [...]

]]> By: Virtually a World | Broken Toyshttp://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/31/are-muds-and-mmorpgs-the-same-thing/comment-page-3/#comment-123866 Virtually a World | Broken Toys Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:52:57 +0000 http://www.raphkoster.com/?p=417#comment-123866 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/31/are-muds-and-mmorpgs-the-same-thing/ 1. Underlying automated rules: a simulation running that defines the world’s physics. 2. Players represent individuals within the world, at some level, though they may control more than one entity. 3. Real-time interaction with the world. 4. The world is shared. 5. The world is persistent to some degree. [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%-->

[...] http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/31/are-muds-and-mmorpgs-the-same-thing/ 1. Underlying automated rules: a simulation running that defines the world’s physics. 2. Players represent individuals within the world, at some level, though they may control more than one entity. 3. Real-time interaction with the world. 4. The world is shared. 5. The world is persistent to some degree. [...]

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