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Salon on M.U.L.E Creator Dani Bunten
douglips writes "If you're a hacker of a certain age, chances are you played M.U.L.E. Salon is running a story on M.U.L.E. creator Dan[i] Bunten. Ahead of her time, she insisted that games would be most enjoyable when they involved social interactions rather than just flashy single-player action and graphics."
Did Dan Bunton become Dani Bunton in the 2.0 release... I heard he had some new features added. (And unlike Microsoft, a few removed too.)
~Hammy
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
-Tony Blair Today, 2003
What about a nice round of capture the flag Quake(1/2/3), or some Unreal Tournament? I know people who have cut off all social interaction to gain status on those games.
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Wow, talk about covering all your bases! It reads like my Humanities short answer essay responses.
What about a nice round of capture the flag Quake(1/2/3), or some Unreal Tournament? I know people who have cut off all social interaction to gain status on those games.
But in all fairness, how much social interaction did these people engage in anyway?
DAOC, EverQuest, heck even all the MUDs that existed were barrels of never-ending fun.
but that is their downfall.....never ending fun. not that i ever complained, bur my gpa and girlfriend sure did....oh well, at least i still have something of a gpa..
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(With all due respect)
That's not a game developer chick! That's a man baby!
"I only speak the truth"
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Don't you hate that, when at the last minute the guy moves his joystick and runs away from you and you're like "Wait Wait! I'll pay more!" and you keep running and running but you just can't catch him and then bang the auction is over.
I hate that.
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But my favorite computer game, before I really got into computers, was leisure suit larry.
Guess I had a lot of growing up to do.
I'll get around to it someday. Until then, don't forget to buy condoms before you go to the hooker! Ken sent me!
Why should I argue rationally with someone being irrational? I'll just mock them instead.
I don't remember which platform this was on, but I have fond memories of becoming a loan shark. You'd borrow small amounts of money until you got a runious interest rate, and then made a payment of somewhat more than you owed. The "banking" computer player would then become a debtor and would continue to make interest payments to you (officially, you were making negative payments to him). Since there was no logic for him to ever pay the loan off, it was a grand way of getting a healthy balance.
Ah, memories...
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
No, but I played Shamus!
(Atari 400 version, though)
I pulled a jack move to cop this sig
Why not just write a 6502 virtual machine in Java?
The correct term these days is "Gender Reassignment Surgery". Not everyone who undertakes a gender transition has this done.
I know of over 20 transsexual game designers. It is like gays in the floral industry. Dani was the best of us all.
I really don't think I need to say more than that.
To my disappointment though, nobody has recognized it in public spaces... I sort of had half-expected that.