07-16-2013, 05:13 AM
Thanks for that, Ixnay, very interesting.
I don't really know either game, but it sounds from your description very much like it to me. Basically, all players are free to develop a zone of sub-creation just as they wish. I suspect Second life is another such. But it can be done in any game, easier in the more complex games, easier still in complex games where you sub-create together with others, co-operatively, like UO.
I came from solo gaming originally, simply because where I lived there were no players I knew in provincial UK in the 1960s). Gaming then comprised of RPG based on D&D or tabletop miniature figurines at first in plastic, there were no mags no ads that I could find, in fact it was all looked on askance by many. I wrote a couple of articles for the very earliest issues of Lone Warrior, then colonised existing PBM games by sub-creating. I've always done it and got a lot of enjoyment out of it.
I don't game any more, as my reactions are too slow after a stroke and using the internet to pay fees is not easy. I've also become more and more pacifist in my gaming, basically packed it in. But have lots of fine memories.
I don't really know either game, but it sounds from your description very much like it to me. Basically, all players are free to develop a zone of sub-creation just as they wish. I suspect Second life is another such. But it can be done in any game, easier in the more complex games, easier still in complex games where you sub-create together with others, co-operatively, like UO.
I came from solo gaming originally, simply because where I lived there were no players I knew in provincial UK in the 1960s). Gaming then comprised of RPG based on D&D or tabletop miniature figurines at first in plastic, there were no mags no ads that I could find, in fact it was all looked on askance by many. I wrote a couple of articles for the very earliest issues of Lone Warrior, then colonised existing PBM games by sub-creating. I've always done it and got a lot of enjoyment out of it.
I don't game any more, as my reactions are too slow after a stroke and using the internet to pay fees is not easy. I've also become more and more pacifist in my gaming, basically packed it in. But have lots of fine memories.