[MUD-Dev] Semi Graphical Muds

[Koster]

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> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:44 PM
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> Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev] Semi Graphical Muds 

> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Koster, Raph wrote:
 
>> True. But I don't think that a single central location is a
>> prerequisite of a community. Some of the community finds MUD-Dev to
>> be A central gathering place. And some of those who gather at
>> MUD-Dev also gather in other gathering places and help disseminate
>> the information. So an extended community forms... IMHO.
 
> I don't buy that. A community is more than just the viral spread of
> information. Me going to Pakistan and talking about how we live in
> Mill Valley does not make anyone I've talked to a part of the
> community of Mill Valley (assuming there is one).

Do Pakistan and Mill Valley have shared interests in common, and are you
acting as a conduit for that type of information?

Usually a community has shared goals of some sort, interests in
common, some background to define themselves against, and some sense
of identity. I think that MUD-Dev has that, and I think that each
commercial graphical game has that, and that commercial graphical
games as a whole have that, and that text muds as a whole have that,
and MUSHes as a subset have that, and so on down the line. And I do
see ways in which the community of MUSHes talks to the community of
MMORPGs, and shares interests, and defines themselves in opposition to
other things (single-player games for example). I won't disagree that
as a whole, the mud community is fairly diffuse, but there's enough
cross-pollination in specific areas to lend it a sense of greater
identity overall... again, IMHO. :)

-Raph
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