MUD-Dev archives not lost forever
Richard Tew, member of the MUD-Dev2 mailing list, has helpfully posted up an archive of MUD-Dev messages. Alas, it only covers 1996-2000, so it is incomplete, but many of the peak years will be present.
The MUD-Dev archives have always been one of the best resources for online world designers — not just in the discussion, but also just because it seemed that whateverr you wanted to talk about had probably been discussed before. I used to make a habit of re-reading the archives every year, because gems would always pop out at me.
Excellent news! I’ll have to go see what stupid things I was saying back then.
I remember getting involved in mud-dev back in 1994 when I was actively writing for MUDs. Unfortunately I had to go get a real job after college and kind of lost track when things started to go graphical. So this is cool because I get to see some of what I missed 🙂
I was thinking about MUD-Dev just the other day. I ran across an archive of some old emails, some of which made me giggle. The subject was “Criminalize Community Voulnteers?” and they were about the counselor program in UO. I said that Customer Service ought to be supplied by the company that made the game, not by volunteers, and practically nobody agreed with me, and pretty much everybody thought I was insane, or just mean. 😛
They were from September of 2000, though, and so were too late to be in the archive. Owell.
I wonder if Lee Sheldon is still around. If I remember right, he didn’t think I was too crazy.
– Madrona Tree.
Lee is at Indiana University. He also recently did that Agatha Christie adventure game, which did quite well. I usually see him a couple of times a year.
Cool news indeed. I figured with Kanga gone, so would the archives. Thanks for this.