MCGREW@RU-GREEN.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (07/15/83)
From: Charles <MCGREW@RU-GREEN.ARPA> ATTENTION ADVENTURE FIENDS AND WRITERS MANQUE SMAUG, the Simultaneous Multi-user AdventUre Game, is an applied research project in distributed computing here at Rutgers University. We are building a software system with centralized database and distributed intelligence. Construction of our software is progressing smoothly. However, we are in need of stories, scenarios which include puzzles that take more than one person to solve. A simple example: two players are needed to move a heavy rock to get out of a dangerous place. We want the game to have a different sort of puzzle from other adventure games, based more on cleverness than use of prize objects. The only limitations we currently have on story lines is that they be in a post-holocaust setting based (believe it or not) in or around the remains of Dayton, Ohio. We would prefer that violence not be the only (or best) solution to puzzles. We intend to implement some form of intelligent computer played characters (NPCs). We need people who are willing to work with an existing group of story writers to create new plotlines and finish others. Please do not send suggestions of the form: "Use the xxx series of books by yyy, they're great!" While this may be true, it doesn't put anything on paper. Writer's guide and further info are available by contacting: MCGREW@RUTGERS. -------