After easter holiday, I'm running around like a mad, making final preparations for up-coming conference trip to US. I will be presenting papers at 2 conferences - and have to bring my own laptop to make sure my slides will work. Sigh.
I will be gone from April 18th - April 28th. Please note, that meanwhile this blogg will not be up-dated.
I will be back on the 29th, hopefully full of experiences from the ACLA: Topos/Chronos - Aesthetics for a New Millennium and the DAC2001 conferences.


Oh, yes, I have now stepped into yet another character. I have just been born Aramilla in the text-MUD Castle Marrach . It's hosted by Skotos, a new compagny that tries to introduce text-MUDs to a larger audience - it's fee-based, but guarantees better service, more development etc. Also, they focus on story-telling, rather than quests, as stated several places on their site.
Unlike many other roleplaying games, Castle Marrach focuses on storytelling — creating and playing out stories in cooperation with other players. In many respects, Castle Marrach is more like improvisational theater than a game. There are no clear-cut goals that the players need to achieve in order to win. A story might have any number of outcomes, depending upon actions of the players who become involved. The challenge comes in creating a compelling drama that brings the Role you have created to life. Sometimes you will reach your goals and sometimes you won’t, but you will always feel like a winner when you’ve told a good story. .
So far, i like the feel of the place and their game-browser (which includes a miniature-map showing your own position in the castle). I found it via this article in Gamasutra.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 15:48