PvP combat is something that is very dear to my heart and nothing quite beats the rush from testing myself against a human opponent. You just don’t get those extremes of emotion from the elation of victory to the utter despair of defeat when fighting against mobs. One problem you are going to face when designing a PvP combat system is how to control the impact of client side scripting… Continue reading

I know I said last time I was going to look at areas where graphical games could learn from text MUDs, but I don’t think that’s a very interesting topic. I think it’s far more useful for those of us working in text to look at what we can learn from the big budget modern graphical MMORPGs. Here are a couple of design themes from modern MMORPGs that I’d like… Continue reading

This article on Massively about the Hero Engine MMORPG development platform made me smile. Yes I suppose the fact that multiple developers can work collaboratively on the same server while seeing the results of each others work in real time is pretty revolutionary. At least for graphical MMORPGs anyway.

The concept is probably quite familiar to anyone who has ever developed a text MUD. I think that TinyMUD way back… Continue reading