[MUD-Dev2] Importance of emoting (Was: ArantagainstVanguardreviews and rants)

[Richard A. Bartle]

On 30 June 2007, John Buehler wrote:
>Here's a theory: The sorts of challenges that Eve presents ends up
>attracting gamers that are interested in expressing themselves.
	Alternatively, it may be that it repels the kind of gamers
that are not interested in having weighty conversations. In other
words, it may not be that they're more interested in expressing
themselves per se, but that they are more able to express themselves
in an environment that has more signal and less noise.

>I wonder if the transience of a graphical emote has anything to do with
>their use.
	There are reasons to suppose you're right. I know that actors
are trained in theories of gesture:
	(points at man)
	There's the man!
is much weaker than
	There's the man!
	(points at man)
It could be that there's a theory of mutlimedia emotes just waiting
to be unearthed here.

		Richard