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Site Navigation Main    News    Forums Games    Games Database    Top 100    Release List    Support Files Features    Reviews    Previews    Interviews    Editorials    Diaries    Misc Download    Gallery    Music    Screenshots    Videos Miscellaneous    Staff Members    Privacy Statement   Star Wars: Galaxies Interview (PC: MMORPG) | Posted by Rendelius @ Wednesday - July 18, 2001 - 13:36 - Top | Game Info | Rate this game | Homepage | Screenshots Must be Star Wars: Galaxies day today, this is the third newsbit we found: CGO has an interview with Raph Koster. It's quite long and quite interesting. Here Raph talks about the differences between current and future MMORPG's: Well, how far in the future do you want to go? In ten or fifteen years, I am not sure what you will be able to recognize. The generally accepted first date for a real online world is 1978, when MUD was written by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle. In 1980 you had something that looked a lot like a multiplayer version of Zork, or a text-based version of Dungeons and Dragons. In 1990, we were seeing the application of this model to user-generated worlds with stuff like MUSH and MOO. By 2000, the state of the art dictates an immersive recreation of a reality with fancy 3d graphics, but we've lost a lot of the user extensibility. I think we'll recapitulate the growth of the text mud world pretty quickly—within five to ten years, we'll probably see a viable commercial large-scale online world that is distributed and run by hundreds of players scattered across the world. Source: Blues News

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