I never followed up on my
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Last week, I wrote about the new combat system I am writing for FiranMUX, the multiplayer, text-based Internet game that my wife and I run for a few hundred very active players. This week, I want to talk about the in-game war I kicked off a few weeks ago, and which will run on Firan for a total of about five or six weeks straight.

Beginnings: The ( Read more... )

This coming Friday, I officially open up "war season" on FiranMUX for scores of players. This year is the first year I have run the annual war myself and I am doing many things differently to test some ideas that I think may solve the problems of the past. I've also coded a brand new combat system to fix numerous inadequacies in the current one ( Read more... )

FiranMUX is the text-based multiplayer internet game that my wife and I have run continuously for the past 11 years. This post will be mainly of interest to designers of internet games, but you pen-and-paper designers might enjoy it anyway.

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Firan's "elder" game. In the MMO circles, an elder game is the stuff ( Read more... )

I've been ever so busy! Where to start? How 'bout I just ramble for a page ( Read more... )

I wrote a pair of calculator commands for Firan a while ago as a fun personal project. If you're curious about such things, check out the explanation and code. One's a very powerful RPN calculator. The other is an infix expression calculator that can handle unary minus and plus and parentheses and stuff.

I posted my to-do list eleven days ago, which is in normal text below. The bold is the update.

• Update (rewrite) Verge rules after last playtest. Still haven't started this.
• Write a game for the Bibliodyssey RPG Challenge in the next 10 days. Dropped out.
• Implement Combat 3.0 design for Firan. I have a good deal of this done, but I'm far from ( Read more... )

I've got a lot of projects on my plate! Too many!

• Update (rewrite) Verge rules after last playtest.
• Write a game for the Bibliodyssey RPG Challenge in the next 10 days.
• Implement Combat 3.0 design for Firan.
• Prepare a number of "military missions" for players on Firan.
• Write a javascript drag-and-drop interface with a PHP + mySql backend to ( Read more... )

I haven't posted anything in a while, let alone a life update. Here's what's going on in the world of Adam.

VacationI took two weeks of vacation over the holidays. I like to take two weeks in a row. It takes me a week to really unwind, then I get a week to relax. It's my annual "reboot." I didn't go anywhere or do anything huge. I relaxed. It was ( Read more... )

This is an ooooold FiranMUX purity test, rediscovered by snarlingbadger:
( results = 54% pure )