Pete's Log: Log Entry 258

Entry #258, Fri, April 14, 2000, 00:10 EST (Life in General)
(posted when I was 21 years old.)

hmmm, I've found myself reading a paper about "habitat," some mud-like online game done by LucasFilm in the late 80s or early 90s. it's quite interesting and has a great quote as to the inspiration for the game:


Habitat was inspired by a long tradition of "computer hacker
science fiction", notably Vernor Vinge's novel, True Names
[1], as well as many fond childhood memories of games of
make-believe, more recent memories of role-playing games and
the like, and numerous other influences too thoroughly
blended to pinpoint. To this we add a dash of silliness, a
touch of cyberpunk [2,3], and a predilection for
object-oriented programming [4].

yay objected oriented programming! anyway, the paper is here