A half-way point between MUDs and full-blown MMOs... why not?

[lamaros]

I, I don't understand what you mean or want. Can you list the features you want?

I should probably 'show' rather than 'tell'. Here's a video from a classic ZZT game, Ned the Knight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTHb7qusnyU

Ned the Knight did a lot with a little. Sword-swinging-y ARPG gameplay, essentially ASCII Zelda. (Sword swinging wasn't a default behavior available in ZZT, but it only takes about 15 minutes of simple scripting to script it in). I wish there were middleware out there to build something like that, but multiplayer.

For a more puzzle-y focus, here's a video of an old ZZT game called Winter, which has no combat, only puzzle solving:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y46meaH7rM

You can get a sense of what I'm looking to build from these, I think. "The same sort of thing as was possible then, but multiplayer."

I'm not sure you're fully thinking through the implications of going from single player to multiplayer.

[Scold]

I'm not sure you're fully thinking through the implications of going from single player to multiplayer.

There are many, many implications of that switch, obviously -- but I'm not saying "the exact same thing but multiplayer", rather "in the same vein".

[Scold]

Hee hee, #zap :) Perfect name. Will definitely follow this project...

[Goreschach]

Lets poke it with sticks and see what happens.

[calapine]

It is very possible

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