[DGD] MUD Design Issues

[David Jackson]

This brings up an interesting point.  Why would an adventure game have 
different requirements than a MUD?  I mean, requirements that are so vastly 
different that the design of the parser should be any different?  We're 
still talking about manipulating objects with verbs.  I would think that 
one, single, powerful solution would rule out the rest.

It made me realize that the design criteria for MUDs has changed over the 
years, and that in my own designs, I was trying to make a MUD that was more 
like an adventure game, and less like the standard MUD.

I don't think that this is an evolution in design practice, personally (the 
standard MUD).  Maybe even de-evolution, in a way.

David Jackson



>The parser used by the Inform library is about as good as you'll find
>anywhere.  It is, of course, geared towards adventure games, which have
>different requirements from MUDs.  But it's a great place to get ideas,
>and the documentation is superb.
>
>inferno (my not-a-MUD DGD project) has a slow, resource-hungry, and
>slightly buggy parser that took a little inspiration from Inform.  It's not
>based on Melville, so there's some work required to do anything with it.
>But anything worthwhile is going to take work anyway.  The bugs are fairly
>serious, but should be easily fixed.
>
>http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/Inform.html      Inform
>http://www.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/~john/dgd          inferno
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