I was surfing The Mud Connector the other day and I stumbled across an Ender's Game MOO (Multiplayer Text based Roleplaying Game). You can connect to it here: telnet://ansible.foomoo.org:6000
Thought some of you gamers here might like to check it out. It looks pretty good. Roleplay required, decent sized world of the battle school. I didn't realy take the time to play it cause I was building on MEM, but I may go back to check it out later. It looks good.
[ June 14, 2005, 07:06 AM: Message edited by: Alcon ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Do you know if they have OSC's permission to make a derivative work of his novel?
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
They do, if I recall.
It actually takes place before or after the events of the book.
-Bok
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
I wonder why they're running a moo rather than a mux. Moo is so yesterday...
-Katarain
Posted by DemonGarik (Member # 7793) on :
They are running a moo because it is about 8 years old.
I was a big MUD player back in the mid 1990's and played for about 6 months on Ansible
They are very very rigid with rules and it wasn't run all that great back then but if you get a chance its kinda fun to explore battle school, the battleroom however was hella hard for them to re-create but walking around battle school was entertaining.
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
Bah. I've been Mux'ing for over 8 years. Mux isn't new.. I just prefer it.. probably because I know it. MUSH, MUX, MOO, MUD, etc. etc.
I was on social or roleplay places. So MUD wasn't my thing.
-Katarain
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
quote:Do you know if they have OSC's permission to make a derivative work of his novel?
This is one of my pet peeves... it shouldn't matter with Mu*s and such. The games are not for profit. They're basically just big roleplaying sessions. They're made by fans for fans, and they don't break copy right laws at all. They shouldn't need permission.
They're basically big fanfics.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
I've been playing on there for a while. I really don't like their rping style. And the battle room seems poorly done. I could do better I may stick around for a while just cause its kinda cool. But I don't much like it so far, its a good idea, and not too badly done. But a different rp style and more active coding team could do much better with this.
Posted by Chris Kidd (Member # 2646) on :
they do have OSCs permision since its linked to from hatracks link page.
I just started at VBs when Cat asked if she could do Ansible Moo. I think she asked out of respect.
if you look at the links page theres also a speaker for the dead moo.
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I may stick around for a while just cause its kinda cool. But I don't much like it so far, its a good idea, and not too badly done. But a different rp style and more active coding team could do much better with this.