Nick Koranda kindly provided the MUD-Dev2 list with a full copy of the original MUD-Dev mailing list archive — 31,406 messages, 62 megabytes as a zip.

Edit: it occurs to me that likely there are many readers who do not know why this matters. MUD-Dev was the principal location of high-level technical and design discussion for all forms of online world design — which was, of course mostly MUDs, but folks from Meridian 59, UO, Dark Sun Online, The Realm, EverQuest, and many of the other graphical worlds participated as well. Many of the snippets on the site come from there, and combing through these very archives was the source of the original Laws of Online World Design. There’s a lot of accumulated wisdom there.

You can get it from me here: Compleat MUD-Dev archive (62MB zip)

Or from Nick at: http://mkhh.net/MUD-Archive.zip

Edit: also mirrored now here.

For giggles, here’s the first, last, and median messages:

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I can personally attest to the fact that you can lose weight very efficiently with Dance Dance Revolution. Now, the state of West Virginia agrees as it rolls out DDR to all its public schools.

Next up, Wiis for everyone! Not that you can find enough Wiis…

Check out these items from the CNN preview of Toy Fair: two guitar toys that plug into the TV. One seems to teach real fingerings using a game; the other claims to let you plug in your MP3 player to play along.

Here’s the email announcement — this is at U Cal San Diego, btw. I’ll be there on stage at some point.

Serious Play: MMO gaming, real money, and social worlds A Discussion

Thursday, February 8, 2007, 4-6:30pm
Atkinson Hall, Auditorium

Featured Speaker:

Julian Dibbell (author of Play Money and My Tiny Life) “Play Money: Gold Farms, Polar Bear Rugs, and the World-Historical Relevance of Game Studies”

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