I’ve kicked off an Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit, where you’re invited to pose questions about my work on OtherSpace, Knee Deep, Fallen Earth, and even my days as a journalist with The St. Petersburg Times and The Herald-Sun. Or about my childhood. Or adopting a son. Or traveling across the country with the late, great Huckleberry. Whatever! Ask away!
MUSH commands come in a couple of flavors. The first are hard-coded commands that are built into the source code of PennMUSH. The second are soft-coded commands, designed by programmers working on the MUSH and generally customized for the needs of that specific MUSH. Most soft-coded commands are preceded by a plus sign (+), while hard-coded…
OLYMPIA DOME, MARS — Martian council member Rafael Santiago addressed a group of reporters today outside his council offices on Mars regarding the recently leaked documents suggesting large budget cuts to terraforming research. “Am I concerned about these cuts? Absolutely I am. Am I outraged that certain councillors hid this in confidential committee report? You…
Three updates this week? What is the world coming to?! Last night I discussed short term plans and some ideas… Have had some interest and feedback so far, and appreciate it. With that being said, I can announce the following: Coruscant has been built! Yes! The center of power for the Galactic…
Steven Campbell first came up with the idea of Hard Luck Hank in the 1990s as a pitch for articles in a fishing magazine. Now Hank’s the star of Campbell’s series of comedic pulp sci-fi stories. Campbell recently took the time to answer some questions: Wes Platt: When do you first remember wanting to write?…
“MUSH” stands for “Multi-User Shared Hallucination.” Really, it’s just a silly shorthand for a type of MUD (Multi-User Dimension) that uses a specific codebase, called PennMUSH (or TinyMUSH or TinyMUX or…you get the idea), to create a special text-based platform, accessible online around-the-clock, for purposes of roleplaying. Some simple comparisons to help give a better…
The Fringe is an independent territory that includes: Tomin Kora Ungstir Antimone Odari Fagin’s Riches is the most dominant organization in the region, a collective of pirates, smugglers, and thieves who are ruled by a shadowy figure known as Lord Fagin the Pirate King. He has his headquarters beneath the city of Freewheeling on Tomin…
