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Old 02-28-2009, 11:31 AM   #5
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Re: Any interest in a MUD programming contest?

The first contest was well advertised, and there were several entries. As far as I recall, later contests received little advertising outside of MudMagic, although word of the prize for the last contest did seem to get around, and several people expressed interest - they just didn't submit anything by the deadline.

The 16K mud contest you mentioned was well advertised, but I think Erwin was also in the right place at the right time. The challenge of creating a mud from scratch appealed to a lot of people, and the 16K limit meant it wasn't an overwhelming amount of work.

You'd have to elaborate on exactly what you mean by a "world simulation", but if you're thinking along the lines of Nathan Yospe's Physmud++ then you're talking about a potentially huge amount of work. I think that would be far too open ended for a contest, personally.
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