3 thoughts on “Here’s something to try…”

  1. Didn’t a lot of MUDs let players use their world-building tools back in the day? Usually the only catch was that you had to have it approved by one of the mods, but several I can think of let players submit room designs.

  2. I used to play one — a Pern MUSH — everyone was encouraged to make their own rooms and objects. I was a master glasscrafter, a title I obtained after an apprenticeship in glasscrafting (ie, I learned the tools to build rooms and objects and the restrictions placed upon them) and the sudden departure of the old master glasscrafter to regions unknown. Unfortunately, my time in Pern was coming to an end as well, and I didn’t hold the post long.
    A standard Wiki (I’ve given this some thought since I posted) isn’t real-time — people entering and leaving rooms and changing the state of room objects like doors, lights and what-not wouldn’t work in the static environment of a Wiki page.
    Still, take a basic engine, dress it up with some Ajax and some back-end support, and *BAM* a game anyone can write, just like it was 1994.

  3. Surprisingly, PernMUSH is still around, though their web page says they are down at the moment. I doubt anyone I knew back in the 90s is still there now, or if I’d even remember them if they were. But it might be nice to stop by!

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