Comparative Game Literature. MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) comparison - J.C.Smith at GameZnet compares the 5 big MMORPGs Ultima Online, Everquest, Asheron's Call, Anarchy Online and Dark Age of Camelot in areas such as Character Building, Background and Setting, Reputation System, Advancement, Quests, Diversity of Equipment etc.

This article by way of the MUD Developers list, which I have just been pointed to by DIKUMUD & ValhallaMUD core programmer Hans-Henrik Stærfeldt. I wrote to him yesterday to hear if he knew of any Danish MUDs?. He doesn't neither, so I am firmly beginning to believe that there are NO Danish language MUDs or MOOs around. There are the CALLMOOs at Bergen, which are aimed at learning Norwegian students foreign languages and there is SvenskMUD originally developed by Daniel Pargman. But no dedicated gameoriented MUD seem to exist with a nordic language as primary language. Guess, it is partly because MUDs want to be international and therefore choose to cater for as many nationalities as possible by having English as their primary language - another reason probably being that you would have to program such a MUD pretty much from the beginning to make all action in the database understandable in, say, Danish. Still, there should be Nordic players enough to inhabit a Nordic MUD with Nordic languages. Could indeed be interesting to study if there were one such, to see what would happen to the Danish, Swedish, Norwegian language in the process of playing and whether in a gameworld it would be possible for people to use their own Nordic language or whether, over time, a sort of Inter-scandinavian language would evolve... Matter of fact is, for the article I am writing in Danish about online worlds and textuality, all the texts I quote will be in English....
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:25