[MUD-Dev] shrink wrapped mud development kit (fwd)

[Lee Sheldon]

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> From: mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu
> [mailto:mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu]On Behalf Of
> J C Lawrence
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 9:52 PM
> To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
> Subject: [MUD-Dev] shrink wrapped mud development kit (fwd)

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> From: duggoldner at my-deja.com
> Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.admin
> Subject: shrink wrapped mud development kit
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:45:08 GMT
>
> I am an author of a commercial mud package that
> is currently running on AOL. We are testing the waters
> to see if the general computer public might be interested
> in a "shrink wrapped" mud development kit. It would
> come with: the engine running under Windows 95/98/NT/2000
> and Linux, a set of visual development tools allowing you to
> easily create areas, a set of beginning areas to learn from or
> reuse, a complete manual outlining how to create areas and
> run the mud itself, a license allowing you to run the mud without
> restrictions (you can charge for it, we don't care).
>
> We would create an online community where people could share
> development tips and files etc. and develop updates to the engine
> and the development tools themselves.
>
> We'd put it all together in a box and sell it for the price of
> a normal PC game (40-50 dollars).
>
> Ideas? thoughts? Feedback? Do you think this would draw more
> people into the hobby? Allow people not as technical to develop
> and run their own mud?

1) Ease of use (Could I start designing cool stuff without reading the
manual?)
2) Flexibility of design (Could I do my own cool stuff with my own cool
rules, or would I be constrained by your "system'?)
3) Size of audience (Are there really that many weirdos like me out there
who would actually derive some sort of pleasure from designing - rather that
just playing in - these?)

If the answer to all three is Yes, then I think there might be a market.

Lee




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