SMALL W RLDS
GDC 2003 – Make Better Games
Confessions of an
Arch-Wizard*
•*Written by Michael
Lawrie, aka Lorry, for MIST back in 1991.
“Full purges can be great fun if you are
bored...wipe a tenth of the persona file, randomly. This way everyone worries it may be them… Personally, I
used to like going onto a game as a wizard and threatening someone… [Admins] are there for the people above
them to abuse, but as a sideline, they are there to abuse the people below them… To be successful at being a
"big" arch-wizard you need to be extremely arrogant… wipe them and
all of their friends out in one fell swoop. Make a point of doing it loudly…The odd act of
kindness, like say, making a novice with a cute name a wizard, can
really annoy people who have been playing for months…”