By Laura Strickman
| Working Title | Creation of a Multi-Player Online Environment |
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| Background | A MOO (Multi-user-dimension, Object Oriented) is a telnet-based online environment accessable to myriad users via telnet clients. It uses its own programming language ("MOO code") which is entirely object-based. |
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| Description | The author hopes to create a MOO accessible to any computer via a telnet client and research the use of sockets in a multi-user environment. Once the simple connection has been established, this project can be elaborated on by the addition of "feature objects" to the MOO, which users can interact with in various ways. The author may also set up a "mail" system for players to use to leave messages for each other, a "channel" system for private speech between players, and other ways for users to interact with each other. She will experiment with making each user's "characters" password-protected, with keeping logs of each user's activity accessible by use of simple commands, and with allowing users to interact with their environment via commands using pronouns (i.e. "talk with Bob", "sit on chair", "put coin in bag"). |
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