From: j2lynn@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (James F'jord Lynn) Subject: Re: APPS: MUD/shared worlds Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 22:04:28 GMT Message-ID: Organization: University of Waterloo From: j2lynn@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (James F'jord Lynn) In article <4i4orq$ls@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Gregory B. Newby wrote: >From: alexia!gbnewby@uunet.uu.net (Gregory B. Newby) > >(Probably someone is under the impression that I'm giving away an >original idea of theirs. Sorry...it's obvious. But exciting.) I wasn't under the impression that nobody had thought about this, but I was under the impression that not everyone in comp.lang.java, rec.games.mud.misc, and sci.virtual-worlds had thought about it. :) But now that the topic is on the floor... About two years ago, a friend of mine at Bell Northern Research and I came up with a plan for a multi-user game with object oriented extensions. We figured that what we wanted was the game to be entirely made of objects, using multithreading (most modern OS's have multithreading built in) for the various sentient objects. We also wanted it interpreted (I was working on a bytecode interpreted language (from C) so naturally I liked the idea) so that only the game would have to be ported to run the objects. That idea went on the back burner (We were/are just way too busy) until two weeks ago I remembered it and realised that we just wanted Java :). I'm still not actively working on it, but I am thinking about it. I'm doing another small game right now. I do plan to persue this eventually, and anyone who wishes to work with me (esp. if you can supply internet space, since projects like these are not small), please contact me. Email is best: j2lynn@calum.uwaterloo.ca. >JAVA doesn't seem quite ready yet, but it's almost ready: > > - a shared virtual world > - qualities of MUDs, IRC, and VR > - able to interact with others and with objects > - can customized/extended by building new objects/rooms/regions/etc. > - interaction by keyboard/mouse or microphone/speakers or > whatever Java itself is perfectly ready. Moreso than most languages. The SDK doesn't come with a MUD class, but that doesn't mean Java is not ready. >Enough for now...I was surprised to see no one discussing this >particular area of application. Yet, it's one of the obvious goals >for developers in the 3 newsgroups I'm posting this message to (Java, >MUD, VR). It's called competition. Money can be had from this. -- Life - F'jord of Timelord, James Lynn | When a penguin laughs, Java - http://calum.uwaterloo.ca/u/j2lynn/java | no one can hear it SuperButton v1.1 and MessageBox v1.0 available there | scream. -self