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The Game Archaeologist plays with MUDs: Your journeys, part 1
What a long, strange trip it's been back through the heyday of multi-user dungeons and the many, many spin-offs and variations thereof. We've looked at the history, talked with Richard Bartle, and promoted a few of the best titles out there -- but we're not done yet! The Game Archaeologist will not hang up his hat and call it a day well-lived until your stories are entered into the history books. Throughout this month, MUD and MU* players have deluged the inbox of the Game Archaeologist Institute for Text-Based Virtual Worlds, impressing us with hefty paragraphs of passionate experiences. These stories are so good, in fact, that we have little desire to choose between them, which is why we're going to annex the first week of May so that we can share all of them. May won't mind -- May's cool like that. So hit the jump and read the testimonies of the word warriors who were there on the front line of parser combat and grammatically correct roleplaying. These are their stories. This is your lunch break.
Iron Realms births Sparkplay Media, new 3D-focused company
Iron Realms Entertainment, who you you might (or might not, more than likely) remember from such text-based MMOs as Achaea: Dreams of Divine Lands, Lusternia: Age of Ascension, and Imperian: The Sundered Heavens, has taken their brand in a new direction, creating a separate company named Sparkplay Media from the division working on their upcoming browser-based 3D property, Earth Eternal. That's right folks, 3D!Evidently, they didn't feel as though text-based adventures and the new 3D IPs should exist under the same banner, so the Sparkplay Media name will be used for Earth Eternal, which is scheduled for 2008, in addition to all subsequent games in the same three dimensional vein and Iron Realms will continue to be used for their text-based games. If your interest is piqued at all, check out the video after the jump for some early in-game footage of Earth Eternal.[Via Warcry]
