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The Sims Online & "Open Source" Gaming Models

Posted by Hemos on from the black-widow-lesbian-households-unite dept.

One of my old friends sent me a recent story from Business2 that talks about online gaming, combined with The Sims Online and community involvement in a game. It's not a very substantive piece, but a good discussion starter.

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  1. On-line sims = real-life? by sifi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey! the ultimate on-line sims. Totally free (well apart from taxes). 6 billion installed user base - it's called real-life.

    It's open source too (just read a physics book)

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    1. Re:On-line sims = real-life? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      It's open source too (just read a physics book)
      Physics books contain source which is incomplete and internally inconsistent, obtained by a massive reverse-engineering project. God has only ever released partial APIs and design specs over the ages, usually under some sort of "shared source" licence where you are not allowed to try to make derivative works (so-called "playing God" in His perjorative phrase). The Universe is very much a closed-source, proprietary affair.
  2. Eh! by Eric(b0mb)Dennis · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Sims Online could turn into something really big... just imagine.. A huge multiplayer world where all these people are... living.. life? What a concept! I can't wait to join my local sims Linux Users Group and start developing for my Sim Open Source community and posting on Sim-Slashdot.. Has the word "Sim" lost meaning to you yet? It sure has to me!

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  3. online adaptations by dr.robotnik · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Someone somewhere must be dreaming of a massively multiplayer redo of Tetris"

    lol... personally i'm waiting with baited breath for the next development, TETRIS - The Movie!! starring: a load of bricks i found in the back yard, some of which were inexplicably T- and L-shaped ;)

  4. Re:The sims is the way of the future by derhurz · · Score: 1, Funny

    physically being in the same location as those we interact with
    didn't get your nookie in a good long while, did you?

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  5. What's really needed is... by cioxx · · Score: 2, Funny

    an open source implementation of the sims, which doesn't rely on graphics or GUI.

    You basically play the MMORPG from $bash. ASCII art is just as good as those fancy sims graphics. As for sound.. the pc beeps as sufficient.

    We'll call it GNU/OpenSims.

    Take that Maxis!

  6. Re:Now this angers me by spakka · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it's a good thing if a business publication sneers at Mozilla and encourages suits to stay with IE. Let the business community swim in its own filth of popups and banner ads.

  7. what a joke by funkmastermike · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...in which "clans" emerge, "mods" can be added... online-gaming environments are fun places where dedicated "players" can show off and surprise one another.
    This "article" is so "well" written and obviously the "writer" is so well informed.
    But seriously, this article is so poor that it is almost a joke and should be taken lightly.. no need to get worked up