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Tinytalk is a podcast about MUSHes and other text-based virtual worlds, and the players who play them. In this episode:

• [00:39] Game Design Concepts, a free online course
• [02:35] Connecting with the media fanbase
• [04:10] Why MUSH is a good platform for RPG

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• [00:35] Mal@Serenity calls in about Tinytalk 022
• [01:46] Review of Things we think about games
• [05:33] Review of Play unsafe

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Tinytalk is a podcast about MUSHes and other text-based virtual worlds, and the players who play them. In this episode:

• [00:00] Bill MacKenty's fourth graders reflect on text-based gaming

An entry on Raph Koster's blog reminded me of his page of The Laws of Online World Design.

There is some very good and serious wisdom there for people starting new MUSHes. Go read it, and then, if you've got a second, reply here and tell us all which of these Laws you consider most important, striking, or otherwise which one most speaks to you as a musher or mush admin.

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• [00:00] Interview with Shawn McCann, North America's first Immersive Learning/Gaming Librarian

In the process of porting Anomaly Jobs to work on PennMUSH, I've found myself with a PennMUSH 1.8.3 database that is:

* A minimal db, plus
* A wizard added names Tools, who owns
* Myrddin's bboard 4.06, Myrddin's cron 1.00, and Anomaly Jobs (pre 5.2), installed in the master room

I'd be happy to provide this on a web site to folks starting out new MUSHes who want a set of standard tools in their database from the outset.

1. Does that seem useful?

2. Are there any other widely used systems that ought to be considered for preinstallation like this?

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• [00:00] Is MUSHing dead?

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• [00:00] Halting State and point of view

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Tinytalk is a podcast about MUSHes and other text-based virtual worlds, and the players who play them. In this episode:

• [00:00] Intro
• [01:00] Good to Great for MUSH
• [12:35] News and Notes