[MUD-Dev] Skotos & WAP Release "Grendel's Revenge" for Public Beta

[Bruce Mitchener]

Christopher Allen wrote:

> Skotos and Worlds Apart Productions have released for public beta
> our newest game, "Monsters! Monsters!: Grendel's Revenge".
 
> This is Skotos' fifth game available for its members, and WAPs
> second game developed for Skotos.

Just a minor point of clarification, TEC (WAP's first game) has been
around for longer than Skotos, but was the first game that we
licensed to them.

> For the Mud-Dev crowd, the developments in Grendel's Revenge that
> would be of the most interest:

...

>    - A very extensive web enhanced chat client, using DHTML for
>    overhead maps, character status, etc.

This is the client work that I'd made some references to here in the
last few weeks. There are a lot of interesting lessons to be learned
from the client for Grendel's Revenge.  But they largely deal with
the difficulty of developing JavaScript and DHTML things that work
even on IE 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0.  While I think it came out well, it
wasn't a piece of cake and I had to learn a lot about oddities (like
no JS timers with a resolution of under 55 milliseconds on Win95, 98
or ME).

  - Bruce

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