Gaming And Virtual Worlds

Yay! The last assignment for work, then I can get back to my true love: celebrity gossip.

First of all, I am not a big game player on the computer. First of all, I don't really like downloading some of the software that may be required for certain games. And second, I am not a big game player.

I do play Mah Johng on line, but that is just to pass the time, and I have played Scrabulous through Facebook with friends from Toronto and around the world. The thing I liked about Scrabulous was that you can have different games with different people, and make your move days later if you had to because of real life concerns. Of course, I don't know why I cared because I ALWAYS lost. LOL

As for virtual worlds, again I am old fashioned. Not into snazzy graphics. But one of the reasons I first actually bought a computer was because of this one virtual world called Ancient Sites. Sadly it is no longer with us. But it is was what you would call a MUSH since it was bacically text only.

You would register under a name (I was Basil Domitius in the Rome group). Then you got a Domus (or house) where you could jazz it up with pictures if you wanted and where you would get your private messages (or PM's for short)

Then you could find an era of history you were interested in. In this case I chose the Byzantine Empire. Then what we would do every couple of months is decide which era we wanted to depict, select historical roles for ourselves, then tell the story. But you had to be historically accurate, while putting your personal stamp on the character. I had a lot of fun once writing obout the blinding of my character. How do you describe something like that if you have never been through it? But that was the idea, to get outside of yourself and write about something you know nothing about.

It was also a social enviroment since we would all go to the specific forum to discuss what our characters would do next and to make sure it stuck to facts as much as possible.

I am sure the technology has changed alot since those early days of Ancient Sites, but I am not sure nothing could take the place of good old imagination.