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I Was Young And I Needed The Money

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-richard dept.

The Escapist this week is running a great article by Richard Bartle entitled I Was Young And I Needed The Money. He doles out the sordid details of his experience developing a never-released sexy text MMOG. From the article: "All we required was some fiendish mind-control system to persuade people to play a text game when they really wanted to play EverQuest. So, that would be sex, then. I'd written a pitch for a sex MUD about five years earlier, but the funding fell through. Now was the time to dust it off! The thing is, sex in a text world has three things going for it that sex in a graphics world doesn't ... "

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  1. Freeform textual sex? by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Has been around for ages. Where was he hiding when MU* games were created. I'm pretty sure the first line ever said in a MUD is "hey, cool, it's working!" The second: "Wanna fuck?"

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    1. Re:Freeform textual sex? by msuzio · · Score: 4, Funny

      Where's the moderation option, +1 - "Oh, Snap"

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  2. This has to be good by mackil · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The thing is, sex in a text world has three things going for it that sex in a graphics world doesn't ... "

    Man am I waiting on the punchline for this!

  3. I thought... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funny, when reading the title I thought it was an RPG about being a prostitute. It would be interesting for a change.

  4. Bwahahaha!!! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny
    As for the sex act itself, we implemented it using a modification of the classic MUD combat system.

    Anyone else get to this line and laugh uncontrollably for five minutes straight?

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    1. Re:Bwahahaha!!! by darkhitman · · Score: 5, Funny

      I can't resist this, crude as it may be:

      It is now your turn.
      Your ejaculation hits Kara101 for 32 damage.

      Kara101 has died.


      Experience gained: 50 points.

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    2. Re:Bwahahaha!!! by g33uu · · Score: 3, Funny

      As for the sex act itself, we implemented it using a modification of the classic MUD combat system. This sounds appropriate. Battles in the classic MUD combat system never lasted very long for me.

  5. Textual by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I put on my robe and wizard hat"