Timeline for Screenshot of the Week #153 - Halloween!
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| Oct 28 at 16:20 | comment | added | Perry | Flash games can in theory be run locally (check out BlueMaxima's Flashpoint). The LambdaMOO RPG is an odd duck here though - about 90% of the code is open-source in a custom language whose interpreter is also open-source but the other 10% isn't and most of the fun comes from that 10%. I doubt the LambdaMOO server is going to die any time before 2038 since enough people still care to keep it minimally running, but when it does things will truly be lost forever. | |
| Oct 28 at 9:00 | comment | added | Clockwork | I'm very familiar with playing games which are no longer remembered by anyone else. In my case, many of these are Flash or Macromedia games which I cannot download and run locally, and as such, I'm afraid that when the site where it's hosted finally dies, it will be nothing more than a faint memory. | |
| Oct 27 at 17:07 | comment | added | Perry | (By "in a forgotten world" I mean that the LambdaMOO RPG is almost 30 years old and the only people still playing it are me and two or three others - the entire game is mostly forgotten; it was originally intended to be an online-multiplayer game but is now basically played as if it were singleplayer. The "forgotten city" part is in-universe; referring to (what is implied to be) a city sunk beneath the swamp) | |
| Oct 27 at 16:58 | history | answered | Perry | CC BY-SA 4.0 |