Game fun.

Not long ago, I came across several articles related to MUD games (http://mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm). An ‘MUD’ is a multi player real-time virtual world that’s typically text-based. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat. Most MUDs can be traced all the way back to Trubshaw's 1978 game called “Bartle, 1990” and “Burka, 1995” and, possibly because of this legacy, the vast majority are regarded as ‘games’ by their players (https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/MDA.pdf). There are four things that people typically enjoy about MUDs. Achievement within the game, where players give themselves in-game-related goals, and set out to achieve them. This usually means collecting and disposing of big quantities of high-valued treasure, or cutting a through hordes of mobiles (such as monsters built into a virtual world). The exploration of the game is another one too, where players try to find out as much as they can about the virtual world. Another thing would be socializing with others, where players use the game' communicative services, and apply the role-playing aspect, as a setting in which to interact with their players (https://learn.canvas.net/courses/3/pages/level-7-introduction-and-readings). MUD’s also support a much more formal approach to design. This allows us to aim specifically towards specific design goals, and to expect changes that impact each feature of the framework and it’s executions. There are also three levels of abstraction, we can theorize the dynamic behavior of game systems. Understanding games as dynamic systems help us develop our techniques for designing and improvement, and allows us to control for any undesired outcomes, and tune for desired behaviour.

Gaming.