[DGD] The future of muds

[Shentino]

2010/9/24 Petter Nyström <jimorie at gmail.com>

> > Muds are dying.
>
> And they will still be dying, 10 more years from now.
>
> > DGD could die with muds, or DGD could help you take the step to
> > switching to the web, running a client as a Facebook application so
> > that new players can find you again.The currently ongoing move
> > to social networks and HTML5 may be the last good opportunity to
> > catch up with the present; it's still new territory and standards
> > are not high.
>
> I assume you mean going further than just offering a typical
> telnet-based mud client as a web application here? Since most muds
> already do offer some way of playing via the web browser.
>
> I too find the possibilities with HTML5 thrilling. While you can build
> a full featured web client using today's Javascript technology,
> already, I have been dissuaded from going all in by the lack of speed
> that my test implementations have shown. I hope HTML5, by introducing
> socket network communication, will alleviate much of this.
>
> A Facebook app sounds like a great way of getting new players, too.
> However, a mud only playable via Facebook sounds awful to me --
> MudVille, anyone? That wasn't what Dworkin suggested, either. I'm just
> saying.
>
> > To return to the subject of features planned for my mudlib, here is
> > one feature that my mudlib will not offer: a telnet port.  No, not
> > even a binary port that telnet will know how to talk to.
>
> I don't see my mud project closing its telnet port anytime soon,
> because it is populated by geeks living their lifes in GNU Screen. But
> I do hope that we will eventually be able to tap into the golden land
> of the web, as well, with a co-existing web client that reaps the
> benefits of being a web client and offers a more graphical ui.
>

I believe Skotos has quite a few objects in their servers that make use of
web interfaces.

Cows being the most prominent example I remember.


>
> Regards,
> Jimorie
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