Thanks for the welcome! I agree with much of what you wrote. Most of these games tend to try to cater to either everyone or one select group. While you can't be all things to all people, you do need to take into account more than one segment of the niche.
And by the way, the promo text for the book has a mistake in it. I'm not an 'online programming guru;' the technical person on the team is Bridgette, who taught herself UNIX back in the late 1980s so she'd know what the coders on her team were really doing with their time, . She's also a seasoned executive.
I don't necessarily agree it won't happen again, though it will take some real effort and clever design.
Oh... my co-author, Bridgette Patrovsky, is a past winner of the Goat Cup in the original MUD. That's a PK competition, last (wo)man standing wins.
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Thanks for the welcome! I agree with much of what you wrote. Most of these games tend to try to cater to either everyone or one select group. While you can't be all things to all people, you do need to take into account more than one segment of the niche. And by the way, the promo text for the book has a mistake in it. I'm not an 'online programming guru;' the technical person on the team is Bridgette, who taught herself UNIX back in the late 1980s so she'd know what the coders on her team were really doing with their time, . She's also a seasoned executive.
I don't necessarily agree it won't happen again, though it will take some real effort and clever design. Oh... my co-author, Bridgette Patrovsky, is a past winner of the Goat Cup in the original MUD. That's a PK competition, last (wo)man standing wins.