Month: November 2008

So I feel an ongoing squelchy guilt about Guncho, Jesse McGrew’s awesome hack/thing where you can create multi-user Inform games linked into a central MUD. See also: Guncho wiki.

I was one of the few people lucky enough to be given a preview of the environment and allowed to play with it before release (and Jesse tucked in a few features at my request); the idea was I was supposed to have a working realm ready when Guncho was released. But the days are gone when I could whip together something playable in a month (for which I blame my job, social life, and decreased ability to go without sleep multiple nights in a row). So I didn’t finish the project in time. And then once that deadline had gone by, there were other things that seemed more urgent, and so I still haven’t finished the project. I am lame.

But leaving that aside for a moment: Jesse and I were chatting this evening, and he suggested that he’d like to hear about some of my multiplayer IF ideas. So here they are, and I apologize for breaking the no-unimplemented-concept-discussin’ standards of the community. Please, if any of this strikes your fancy as something to implement, feel free to use it. Or debate, or ignore. Whatever.

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