I read the book when I was a MUD addict in the 90s, and MUDs had a similar mechanism. If you became high enough level in many MUDs, you became a "wizard". Wiza

I read the book when I was a MUD addict in the 90s, and MUDs had a similar mechanism. If you became high enough level in many MUDs, you became a "wizard". Wizards weren't players anymore, but they could edit code, creating new areas in the game for players to explore. Changing the code of a running game from within it was pretty cool, and so was the programming language (LPC, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPC_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPC_(programming_language)).