Simulated societies (Re: [MUD-Dev] Thought Experiment: Permanent Monster Death)

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:05:07 +0100 
iso  <olag at ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> J C Lawrence <claw at kanga.nu> writes:

>> John Arras' work on simulated societies and world development is
>> sorely overlooked in recent discussion.  He gave an excellent
>> presentation on it at the last MUD-Dev Conference.  His server is
>> Open Source.  I strongly suggest installing and running a copy.  Just
>> tracking the emergence, growth, distribution, annihilation etc of NPC
>> populations within the game is amazing.

> I haven't had a chance to look at this beyond reading the few hints
> given at the website. It would be interesting to read more on what the
> simulation involves. Are the slides from the presentation available
> somewhere?

You can find a (cut down) copy of the conference CD with slides etc
here:

  http://www.kanga.nu/MDC/cdrom.2003/

John Arras' section can be found here:

  http://www.kanga.nu/MDC/cdrom.2003/#arras_generated

The only differences between that tree and the "real" CD are that the
session tracks and missing and the real CD contains a full copy of the
MUD-Dev archives (not that anybody has asked for that latter).

--
J C Lawrence
---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw at kanga.nu               He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/  Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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