Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: rec.games.mud Message-ID: <_:H1+51xds13@ficc.uu.net> Date: 3 Feb 90 04:45:38 GMT References: <9510@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <3777@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 In article <3777@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> paola@zen.co.uk writes: > a game was developed at CMU I doubt that it was the first. The first > multi-user dungeon game was developed about 10 years ago at Essex University, > England (Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw being the only two names I can > remember of the writers). Actually, the first game of this kind was called "Public Caves", and it was run at People's Computer Company in the mid-70s some time. During 1979 or 1980 a version was implemented at Berkeley by a guy whose name escapes me. I did another version around 1975 based on my recollections of the Berkeley version. This version is still running at Sugarland UNIX. I'd suggest something like rec.games.virtual-worlds, but that's pretty long. That's sort of the general idea, anyway. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'