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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 18 Oct 1998.
Re: Fixed size art, artist needed, Game system, Read please

Re: Fixed size art, artist needed, Game system, Read please

.----- On 11 Oct 1998 17:06:14 GMT, Ilmari Karonen posted:
|Robert Schultz (ber...@ncinter.net) wrote:
|: I'm desiging a new RPG multiplayer system that allows telnet connections.
|: The networking already all works, player handling, etc. And now i'm desiging
|: the game.
|
|Ok, I'll bite..
|
|: Unlike your normal telnet MUDS, this is going to be quite different.
| [snip details]
|
|From what you say, your system isn't that different from MUDs - it might
|not be an average MUD, but it certainly wouldn't seem unusual at least by
|LPMUD standards. There certainly are far weirder things done in LPC[1].
|
|Of course, it doesn't have to be unique, it just has to be good. If your
|system, and the world it presents, are well designed and implemented, the
|idea has the potential to become a great game. It also has the potential
|to become a flop.
'---------------------------
<SNIP the rest>

I just have one comment. Design the ascii art around the world --- don`t
deliberately layout the world to fit your favourite ascii arts.

basically, design the layout of the world before you even go near pitting in
any pics.

I hope the project goes well...

-Martin
|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

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From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
Subject: Re: Fixed size art, artist needed, Game system, Read please
Date: 1998/10/18
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