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Tinytalk Episode 024: Bits and Bobs
Submitted by javelin on Sat, 2009-07-04 10:58Click here to download this episode: 
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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

Tinytalk phone number change
Submitted by javelin on Mon, 2009-04-20 08:38The Tinytalk voicemail number has changed to +1 (206) 202-0107.

Tinytalk Episode 023: Books on Games
Submitted by javelin on Wed, 2009-01-28 10:33Click here to download this episode: 
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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:
- [00:35] Mal@Serenity calls in about Tinytalk 022
- [01:46] Review of Things we think about games
- [05:33] Review of Play unsafe

Tinytalk Episode 022: Tales of a Fourth Grade Something
Submitted by javelin on Tue, 2009-01-13 21:04
Laws of online world design - what's your favorite?
Submitted by javelin on Sun, 2009-01-04 10:54An 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.

Tinytalk Episode 021: Interview with Shawn McCann
Submitted by javelin on Sat, 2008-05-31 12:33
A not-so-minimal db
Submitted by javelin on Thu, 2008-04-03 09:05In 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?

Tinytalk Episode 020: Is MUSHing dead?
Submitted by javelin on Tue, 2008-04-01 07:30
Tinytalk Episode 019: Halting State
Submitted by javelin on Sun, 2008-03-23 10:20

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