While there are many founders of the video game industry writ large, the dawn of multiplayer gaming is a much more select group of luminaries and our guest today, Richard Bartle is most definitely one of them. He cocreated MUD1, the first Multi User Dungeon game as a college student and has gone on to help shape the academic view of gaming ever since.

Recorded: January 2025

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Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracosm
https://www.mobygames.com/game/124837/multi-user-dungeon-mud1/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Online
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Online
https://mud.co.uk/richard/mpublish.htm
https://mud.co.uk/richard/pcwaug84.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_Kesmai
https://mud.co.uk/richard/pcpsep87.htm
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessmulligan/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/historical-bits-mobile-gaming-part-2-wap-games-anu-halme/
Books by Richard:
How to Be a God
http://www.howtobeagod.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0955649498
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0955649498/
https://mud.co.uk/richard/How%20to%20Be%20a%20God.pdf
Dheghōm http://www.Dheghōm.com/ (http://www.xn--dheghm-fgb.com/)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915964008/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1915964008/
https://mud.co.uk/richard/Dhegh%C5%8Dm.pdf
Erwā
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1915964040
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1915964040

Bhéwonom
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1915964067
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1915964067

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