[MUD-Dev] Self-Sufficient Worlds

[Zak Jarvis]

> From: Angela  Ferraiolo [a.ferraiolo at worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 12:52 AM

> >From: "Zak Jarvis" <zak at voidmonster.com>
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 2:03 AM
>
> > What I want, ultimately, is for the biography of a sizable
> > portion of the player population to contain the puzzle
> > pieces which tell a series of larger and larger stories
> > - stories which are not mapped out beforehand,
> > but flow out of the interactions between each other and their
> > environment.
>
> Slipping out of lurk mode to say that, unless I'm
> misunderstanding you, this is not so hard to do, it's
> called embedded narrative, and it's been around for at least twenty
> years...take a look at Potocki.
> You need an event db that supports it, is all.

How much for another clue? :)

I tried Mud-dev searches and HotBot searches and turned up exactly nothing.

Honestly though, I never thought it'd be hard exactly, just that it'd be
work (which I think would be fun, interesting work). I've never seen it
done, though, nor have I heard of what you describe.

-Zak Jarvis
 http://www.voidmonster.com





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