Davisb135

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by Davisb135 2mo ago
I'm glad it sparked something. Really cool to see not just the nostalgia, but the active projects/games, and the feature requests. Original Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008538
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by Davisb135 2mo ago
Just starting small. Those are all ideas for Phases 2 & 3.
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by Davisb135 2mo ago
Haha, thanks. I wish I'd come up with that. It's from Gunpei Yokoi of Nintendo fame.
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by Davisb135 2mo ago
Having stepped away from MUDs ourselves for years, it's been interesting to see what the community has been cooking up in terms of UI/UX, Evennia, MUDlet, TUIs, etc.
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by Davisb135 2mo ago
That's fair. We leaned on LLMs to help draft parts of the paper but disclosed it in the acknowledgements section. We didn't appreciate the amount of work this "hobby" experiment would require, and so looked for ways to h
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by Davisb135 2mo ago
That's a cool project, thanks for sharing!
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by Davisb135 2mo ago
Not Hitchhiker's specifically, we'd considered another existing one but as soon as we started digging into IP law related to MUDs, we decided if we're going to do it, we'll just start our own from scratch.
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by Davisb135 2mo ago
That's a good idea, thanks! We'd only considered the web app + using a client.
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by Davisb135 2mo ago
Thanks! Yeah, it started with a friend's idea to take a MUD we played in the 90s / early 2000s that had been open sourced and adapt it to mobile games. He's a middle school teacher and wanted to introduce the next generations
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by Davisb135 2mo ago
Sadly, you're not wrong... It might not get off the ground, but if we're able to, we'll give it a shot.
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by Davisb135 2mo ago
I agree with you. You've also got more / easier competition. IIRC, MUDs peaked in the mid-late 90s. MMOs were really the death knell, then the explosion of other types of games, mobile games, then to your point things like Discord
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Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept(cruciblebench.ai)
109 points by Davisb135 2mo ago|79 comments