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It would be great if someone wrote a book about open world video games. Or just video game worlds in general. Perhaps 100 games, three pages of pics and two pag

by Tycho 5y ago

It would be great if someone wrote a book about open world video games. Or just video game worlds in general. Perhaps 100 games, three pages of pics and two pages of commentary for each one. Feels like someone should document all these virtual worlds since most people only have time to experience a few. Maybe it would work better as a wiki, or could start as such.

DonHopkins 5y ago
Richard Bartle, who co-created MUD1 (the first Multi User Dungeon) at the PDP-10 at Essex University in 1978, wrote a book called "Designing Virtual Worlds" in 2003, and has written more recent books with longer elaborate titles, like: "MMOs from the Outside In: The Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games of Psychology, Law, Government, and Real Life" and: "MMOs from the Inside Out: The History, Design, Fun, and Art of Massively-multiplayer Online Role-playing Games" (He says the publisher added the subtitles, but "The original titles were MMOs FTW and MMOs WTF.") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designing_Virtual_Worlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designing_Virtual_Worlds https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/27559317-mmos-from-the-inside-out https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/27559317-mmos-from-th... https://books.google.nl/books?id=I65PCwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&dq=%22MMOs+from+the+Outside+In:+The+Massively-Multiplayer+Online+Role-Playing+Games+of+Psychology,+Law,+Government,+and+Real+Life%22&source=bl&ots=UzmA5x6kFw&sig=ACfU3U2uGXYxdxUbgUor4aCojqEDrd4hBA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjmMqI1vbxAhXB5KQKHbqkDdgQ6AEwCXoECAwQAw#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.nl/books?id=I65PCwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1...
- Cthulhu_ 5y ago
  Thanks for the recommendations, I've ordered Designing Virtual Worlds for holiday reading and the other two are on my wish list!
photojosh 5y ago
You might like "Virtual Cities: An Atlas & Exploration of Video Game Cities" too. [0] https://www.game-cities.com/virtual-cities https://www.game-cities.com/virtual-cities

by Tycho 5y ago

DonHopkins 5y ago

Richard Bartle, who co-created MUD1 (the first Multi User Dungeon) at the PDP-10 at Essex University in 1978, wrote a book called "Designing Virtual Worlds" in 2003, and has written more recent books with longer elaborate titles, like: "MMOs from the Outside In: The Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games of Psychology, Law, Government, and Real Life" and: "MMOs from the Inside Out: The History, Design, Fun, and Art of Massively-multiplayer Online Role-playing Games" (He says the publisher added the subtitles, but "The original titles were MMOs FTW and MMOs WTF.") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designing_Virtual_Worlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designing_Virtual_Worlds https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/27559317-mmos-from-the-inside-out https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/27559317-mmos-from-th... https://books.google.nl/books?id=I65PCwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&dq=%22MMOs+from+the+Outside+In:+The+Massively-Multiplayer+Online+Role-Playing+Games+of+Psychology,+Law,+Government,+and+Real+Life%22&source=bl&ots=UzmA5x6kFw&sig=ACfU3U2uGXYxdxUbgUor4aCojqEDrd4hBA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjmMqI1vbxAhXB5KQKHbqkDdgQ6AEwCXoECAwQAw#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.nl/books?id=I65PCwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1...

Cthulhu_ 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendations, I've ordered Designing Virtual Worlds for holiday reading and the other two are on my wish list!

photojosh 5y ago

You might like "Virtual Cities: An Atlas & Exploration of Video Game Cities" too. [0] https://www.game-cities.com/virtual-cities https://www.game-cities.com/virtual-cities