Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
(p. 5)
The “Torch” principle
(p. 4)
Origins
• Baseball Sims
• Tabletop Games
– Wargames
– RPG’s
• Colossal Cave Adventure
• Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs)
• Interactive Fiction (IFs)
The Dark Age
• The 1970’s
• The “text” game
• PLATO games
• ‘Rogue’ and ‘Roguelikes’
• MUDs
• Graphical MUDs
• *Technology and Graphics finally catch up, and the idea of if you
can think it you can find a way to do it becomes standard – though
not without some major headaches.
Modern Age
• 2000(ish)
• Neverwinter Nights
• KotR
• Fable
• MMORPGs
• MANY others…
• …And whatever comes out next year.
*No he doesn’t – I made that up, but I bet he would. Now go home and write your papers.