Category Archives: Analitycs

Inspired by recent WoW streams Our (gamers’) life is funny. We start playing a game, delve into everything there, milk all its juicy content, and memorize all its mechanics. The game becomes predictable and boring. We get tired of it. … Continue reading →

I’ve made video (you could find it below) about top 5 current problems in MUDs gamedesign. As my English could be hard to understand sometimes, I’ve also made short summary of stuff which I said in my video:

1) Are there any MUD around where developers fights VS unnatural scripted style of gameplay? So players would play manually, without need to AFK-macro. At least have anti-afk capcha? 2) I wonder are there any MUD which have such gameplay, which prevent (or … Continue reading →

I’ve read a thread at reddit today: Why Isn’t WildStar more successful? My answer: The same reason why VR not popular in MMORPG – it’s hurts to play it a lot, you got dizzy. WildStar arcade combat was amazing in … Continue reading →

After my video about escape from boring MMORPG gameplay to D&D worlds, I got a few comments of this kind: What you are telling, Tangarich, it’s all implemented in WoW (server Argent Dawn) and in EK2 (server Antonia Bayle). This … Continue reading →

 It’s already for some time while I get bored by MMORPGs gameplay.. I played online games for 20 years (Ultima Online FTW!) and past ~5 years I started to look for ‘new feelings’ in MUDs (text MMORPGs) and online roguelikes … Continue reading →

It would be great to add voice control (and, in general, the voice interface) to MUDs – after all, this is the perfect genre for it; in fact it’s the only online games’ genre where such “interface” will be convenient, … Continue reading →

UO is very unique game in different ways. One of them – official servers are worst than private ones… Why? Cause master of UO brand – Electronic Arts – did everything to kill official UO. Last nail to the coffin … Continue reading →

My past post about Rel Por shard was like an introduction… Now it’s time to make some suggestion to it’s developers. So what I could say: Rel Por its a diffenetely unique and very interesting UO experience. You, guys, made … Continue reading →

The problem: casual player wouldn’t have much to do after 1-2 months. At first it’s exiting just to run around; kill mobs; gather resources; get into first PvP battles… But eventually you have to end up in black zones which … Continue reading →

Currently there are 3 truly online roguelike games: 1) MAngband ( http://mangband.org ) 2) TomeNET (http://tomenet.eu) 3) PWMAngband ( http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr ) 4) Tangaria ( http://tangaria.com ) // soon would be renamed to ‘Tangaria’ Details: – PernMAngband it was actually TomeNET, which was renamed cause copyright … Continue reading →

I started to play UO in 1999. In that time we didnt had any macroses exept, maybe UOLOOP. And we raised skills mostly by our hands. Do you remember, guys, bone room in Deceit? Its how we actually gained our … Continue reading →

Overall, I like Ember Online very much. This game has the most friendly UI (among MUDs) which I saw. It make playing this MUD very big pleasure. Also I love the world, locations, setting, lore, classes and races… It’s all … Continue reading →