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5:36am - So, I've been reading through Raph Koster's book Postmortems: Vol 1 and I'm pretty close to the end. It's a great book, even though it's mostly just a collection of his essays over the last twenty years. It's also got me inspired to make virtual worlds!
But that's kind of a pipe dream, isn't it? I can hardly be arsed to work on my AI Projects and now I'm thinking about MMOs, MUDs, and more...
I was just saying to my friend Kanada, the worst thing that could happen to me is to actually succeed and have to manage a community on top of everything else. XD
But yeah, any time I work on my AI projects I think about how they'd fit into virtual worlds, and seriously I'm mostly just making single player virtual worlds.
I've been thinking about making a MUD. About a week ago, I joined a MUD Discord, and asked both there and on the r/MUD subreddit about MUDs that use A-life simulation, and there just weren't any. One person rather pointedly commented about how MUDs haven't been innovating for a long time. The popular ones are mostly made up of theme park style areas.
I still need to try one of the others that's been a standout, called Sindome, but I'm a bit afraid to given the implied commitment of their shelter system, and their heavy roleplay requirement. Well, we'll see if I get around to it.
Anyways I think I could build a MUD that has lots of interesting and innovative features. But it would be a lot of work and probably not worth the trouble, unless in doing it I find some purpose in my life.
At this point I have good friends, a safe home, enough money to eat and have good times. What is it that I'm missing in life that leaves me feeling so unsatisfied? Is it just my depression causing it? Or is there something more to life that I'm missing?
I feel a certain satisfaction when I work on my projects, usually, but it's fleeting and I don't know what exactly brings it about. I haven't been feeling a lot of that satisfaction in my work lately, and I wonder what I'm doing wrong.
So, why a MUD? I could probably make a not-so-massive multiplayer online game with fancy features too. I don't know what I want to do, to be honest.
6:08am - Well, I started writing this to brainstorm about MUD design, to either get something started or get it out of my system. So let's do that, right?
6:25am - Jeez no sooner did I write that than I went looking on google for MMO Frameworks. I'm surprised to say I actually found a FOSS one too. I'll have to give it a better look when I'm less sleepy.
6:38am - So, if I were to make a MUD, or an MMO, what would I want to feature within it?
Blah. It'll have to wait for another time. I'm too tired to think straight now.
But that's kind of a pipe dream, isn't it? I can hardly be arsed to work on my AI Projects and now I'm thinking about MMOs, MUDs, and more...
I was just saying to my friend Kanada, the worst thing that could happen to me is to actually succeed and have to manage a community on top of everything else. XD
But yeah, any time I work on my AI projects I think about how they'd fit into virtual worlds, and seriously I'm mostly just making single player virtual worlds.
I've been thinking about making a MUD. About a week ago, I joined a MUD Discord, and asked both there and on the r/MUD subreddit about MUDs that use A-life simulation, and there just weren't any. One person rather pointedly commented about how MUDs haven't been innovating for a long time. The popular ones are mostly made up of theme park style areas.
I still need to try one of the others that's been a standout, called Sindome, but I'm a bit afraid to given the implied commitment of their shelter system, and their heavy roleplay requirement. Well, we'll see if I get around to it.
Anyways I think I could build a MUD that has lots of interesting and innovative features. But it would be a lot of work and probably not worth the trouble, unless in doing it I find some purpose in my life.
At this point I have good friends, a safe home, enough money to eat and have good times. What is it that I'm missing in life that leaves me feeling so unsatisfied? Is it just my depression causing it? Or is there something more to life that I'm missing?
I feel a certain satisfaction when I work on my projects, usually, but it's fleeting and I don't know what exactly brings it about. I haven't been feeling a lot of that satisfaction in my work lately, and I wonder what I'm doing wrong.
So, why a MUD? I could probably make a not-so-massive multiplayer online game with fancy features too. I don't know what I want to do, to be honest.
6:08am - Well, I started writing this to brainstorm about MUD design, to either get something started or get it out of my system. So let's do that, right?
6:25am - Jeez no sooner did I write that than I went looking on google for MMO Frameworks. I'm surprised to say I actually found a FOSS one too. I'll have to give it a better look when I'm less sleepy.
6:38am - So, if I were to make a MUD, or an MMO, what would I want to feature within it?
Blah. It'll have to wait for another time. I'm too tired to think straight now.
