From MUDs to MMORPGs: The History of Virtual Worlds
Abstract
Today's massively multiplayer online role-playing games are the direct descendants of the textual worlds of the 1980s, not only in design and implementation terms but also in the way they are evolving thematically.
- Publication:
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International Handbook of Internet Research
- Pub Date:
- 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1007/978-1-4020-9789-8_2
- Bibcode:
- 2010ihoi.book...23B
- Keywords:
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- Virtual World;
- MMORPG;
- MMO;
- Online Game;
- History