Yesterday I had to take my daugher to the ER, because she’s had a fever for longer than is typical when children catch a cold. A week ago she took a covid-19 test which came back negative so we knew it was something else. She was admitted and given her…

Welcome back to this ongoing series of articles where I publish my thoughts on the text-based fantasy online roleplaying game I’m developing. If you’re new here, you might want to start with the first entry.

I like text. I find it fascinating how through a long sequence of words, a…

Any parent will tell you that maintaining a positive relation with your children is not always an easy task. We don’t always have to be their friend, but we always have to be their parent. …

Have you too heard the popular phrase “respect is earned, not given”? It is usally said by someone who is trying to sound “badass” to justify why they just disrespected someone. This line of thinking makes no sense, and I will explain why.

I’ve heard police officers speaking that way…

All games have at least one core mechanic, around which the gameplay is built. The core mechanic of Super Mario Bros is jumping, and the core mechanic of Tetris is to fill rows with blocks without empty spaces so that they disappear. Blind Luck MUD is a role-playing game, and…

If you want to start from the beginning, the first entry is here.

This text-based online fantasy roleplaying game started with the idea of making a game that is as accessible for the visually impaired as it is for anyone else. In the previous entry in this Development Diary, I…

In virtually all games where players are allowed to create their own character, the game will ask them to specify their character’s gender. This is expected, and most of us don’t think twice about it. We just choose “male” or “female” and off to play we go. But what if…

Every MUD needs a lot of locations — which in the case of MUDs are called “rooms” — and this MUD is no exception. In fact, any respectable MUD will have thousands of rooms. …