This is for the passionate and skilled people out there... a new level of MD

I am just a man, and chew is also no batman either, we are trying to foster the existence of this wonderful community, to keep its values and hopefully to attract more interesting people. As you know, this is a dictatorship, without dictators, a social sandbox, a trial towards self discovery, a place where crazy means good, where skills  are your invisible rank, a place where nothing is fair but just makes things spicier and challenging in a strange way. Each one sees what he is searching in MD, a mirror of himself that he eventually has to face, there is no predictable thing you could see  in that mirror, because above the beautiful places and semi-boring activities , there are the other living players that build the actual MD.

Mirrors are forbidden by law in MD, because this is a clue enough for the other mysteries to fall in place...plus it could really be dangerous to have a real, objective mirror, in a place created through the subjectivity of all the other mirrors..sorry i mean players.

Balance is there if you search it, it keeps things alive in here, but evolution feeds on unbalance, not on balance, your minds feed on challenges not on safe monotony. Its time for me to risk some more and to try to resuscitate this machinery..but i cant do it alone.

Magicduel is a learning machine if you know how to use it.
This machine needs moving parts and fuel to run. You do realise you are the fuel, without its players MD would be an dead piece of messy code. 

Right now I prepared all the gears and pieces, but its just too much for just a couple of people to do. We need help to put them together, and put them in motion and fuel them to keep them running. 

This is where you come in ...well some at least hopefully..

The "A25 Tools" are ready, functional, and already in test use for a long while. Azull did a great job on the island, Sushi made some insanely beautiful artworks, others tried their skill and did quite decent too... i have huge hopes for this. I dream to bring a next level of interactivity, through a natural level of evolution of the "veteran"  player....that level is to be part of md evolution, not just to be entertained by others, but to build your own gears inside this beautiful  machine.

The tools i made allow to build nearly every aspect of the md world if needed, with no coding involved, just creativity and logic..and lots and lots of passion.

...but right now they are in risk of rusting if i don't find more special people that have the ability to use them right. It requires a certain type of person to expand md, a type of such rarity that i am happy if i find at least one, but i prepared the tools to be used for all if it would ever be the case.

We have many skilled quest creators, and from time to time we find an amazing artist too..these characters are not permanent if i do not offer them a chance to express themselves better.

For me, the way i enjoyed md was to build it, and at some point Chew followed me and on the same path. Now with these tools you don;t need coding skills, and with volunteer artists you don;t even need drawing skills,  still need A LOT but at least now there is a chance for any passionate and smart person in here to develop md and see how it looks from behind the curtain.

 

We are a disaster in terms of leadership and organizig ...i admit thats mainly my fault, or was at least. Without other ways to manage this, i will count just on the individuality of those that might get acces to these tools, to make md a self balancing oranism, with no central brain that will govern it. 

I saw that some of you understood the underlyng concepts and symbols of this realm, and managed to respect them. Some of them even had god powers at some point, but they had no real tools to express themselves and infuence others. I will try again to discover such people, this time prepared to keep them and offer them real tools to make their share of the realm as they think fit.

 

If you kept reading till here, you have the patience neede for this, and you migh feel same hope i feel about this unique opportunity to CREATE something amazing, so i ask for your help.

I made a long (but far from exhausitve) documentation of what the tools can do.

If you are interested, read it, and help me organize it better. Help me build the first step needed for whoever will use it, to access it in a useful way (might be you who knows).

If you know a fossil that made legend long ago, invite them to do the same...to read this article like you did and try to put the gears i made in motion.

I will continue to develop md, thats what i do, thats my role in here, not to lead, not be a dictator, and not even to create. I create md, thats enough for my role, ..but you, you create the rest.

Chew, this is an invitation for you too, you are the code master, true, but you reached there not by being hired to do it, or because you are an amazing coder, but because you understand how md works.

I don't want to name all the people i see able to join in this, but i wish i see them actually do it. There is a place there for many of you, you just have to realize it and actually do it, yourselves.

Start with the low work, prepare the docs, understand them, then the second step is to help someone that already uses them to use them better, or prove you understand them well, and that you can keep md style while you do. The next natural step, is to try them out, and them ..if and only if you gain my trust and keep the tools long enough in such way that nobody complains on how you use them and you create with them, they will become yours and part of your role.

 

good luck.

Thank you for reading all this. Please leave me a note here if you read all of it, i am curious who actually managed it and who the potential candidates might be

-- Mur

And here is the document i put together with all i could come up about the A25 Tools , please don;t bother to read it if you didn't read all of the above and feel you have a place in all this.

 

Sorry for the mess, and language mistakes, that is the best i could do on my own.

Definitely fills me with hope.

I cant wait for the beautiful picture this paints.

8 hours ago, Muratus del Mur said:

Please leave me a note here if you read all of it,

Have read it all  and the email you sent me

Just finished reading this, and wanted to say that I am very happy to hear all this.

I read to the end. It's been a long time, but I'll peak back in. 

I still wonder whatever happened to the chained quests project we started some time ago

one step at a time, yush

37 minutes ago, Ungod said:

I still wonder whatever happened to the chained quests project we started some time ago

one step at a time, yush

The chained quests where also about this, the a25 tools, but the difference was that i was still the one that still had to do everything...so again..like so many times, i was unable to deal with it (bad organizing, lack of focus, dead girlfriend, etc)...

And then i realized it.. I was working on these features not for me..but for that what was once called RPC...and the only way for this to work is if there are capable people to put these tools at work...not myself.

 

Because of what i learned from the chained quests, i am doing now this..first documentation..later on apprentice for someone using the tools already..and finally teams of people where just one has a25, but all people are needed in the team. 

This scenario is already happening with Azul and people working with him..with nearly ZERO intervention or support from myself

I dont like to repeat myself but i need to..i am building the tools , just the tools, not what you do with the tools. Same way md teaches you based on what you teach it..its not meant like a book that you get info from and return nothing back.

 

So the chained quests i failed, and regardless that i have strong excuses why...doesn't matter...but i learned something out of that..and this parh leads to the same purpose

 

 

read this, its really interesting although i think md might already be irreparably dead.this gives a little hope

20 minutes ago, Muratus del Mur said:

So the chained quests i failed, and regardless that i have strong excuses why...doesn't matter...but i learned something out of that..and this parh leads to the same purpose

Ah, ok, i tjought it could be brought back with these tools.

53 minutes ago, Ungod said:

Ah, ok, i tjought it could be brought back with these tools.

The right person can.

maybe someone can also get around to fixing the bloody lighthouse (but not me i'm busy :p)

Just finished reading, it sounds very promising!

Its very hard to start..and having a guide is impossible..and me talking to everyone is also unrealistic.

Thats why i think that if you work together on organizing the docs, you get to do the first step(s) and at the same time you get to see how well you understand them, anf do team work hopefully. It is fairly possible that you will not understand the syntax but you will still be able to plan amazing things with e...in such a case, teams are essential. 

'Coders' will need no coding skills at all , but they need to have a logical mind so they understand how to set things corectly.

'Artits' will provide artwork and most probably they will be freelancers for other ppl in md.

'Questmakers" will provide ideas and plans of quests and events

Other main roles are up to you ofc!

 

Think of this, ..it is normal to make a team with an artist to make drawings for you. ..but it is the same to have the coder as "freelancer" in your team to implement a quest idea..or the questmaker to put your implementing abilities to good use. Each one is important.

14 hours ago, Ungod said:

Ah, ok, i tjought it could be brought back with these tools.

of course it can

 

On 10/13/2018 at 8:44 AM, Muratus del Mur said:

Thank you for reading all this. Please leave me a note here if you read all of it, i am curious who actually managed it and who the potential candidates might be

I have read it all. ????

Good news, many changes ahead...

Read it yesterday, just needed a moment to reply. Linny is slow. 

I like it a lot that the door is officially open to more people now and how much hope it brings for everybody. It'll be hard getting used to the apparent boundaries of what can be done by players not being so tight anymore. It also poses a challenge - breaking my own habit of writing down and setting ideas aside or just telling them to the nearest person at that moment so I wouldn't think about those ideas anymore just because at that moment they don't seem doable. Still, it's a great relief that there'll be somewhere to point passionate people at. There are many I wish were still around for this, but people right now are eager for action too. It's also good to know Azull and Sushi found their place. Way to go, you two!  

This is the kind of thing I have been hoping for for 10 long years.... but what are the limits? Is something like the Astral Plane or Postbox still frowned upon?

This is some great news, it will be interesting to see what comes of it. 

Its a long way to read, But i like it the purpose of what we are. Long Live MD

For all of you, state your intention and willingness to participate in the organizing, exemple creation and later on counceling regarding a25 tools.

From those of you that offer, i will select those that i consider capable (lots of subjectiveness here, i know) and grant them access to the rest of the docs.

From there on, when we have the docs organized, we test them. These are the steps to get to play with the tools.

 

So let me know who is interested.

I have read it all. very interesting, bringing creative minds together is a great thing! Maybe I’m not a skilled quest creator, but I can take a role as freelance artist for the projects.

Edited October 16, 20187 yr by Sushi

I am interested to play and test the a25 tools. Then i can help if needed.

First - thank you. This was something I've read with joy. I haven't spend that much time in MD for too long. Sadly, I am not to be considered yet, due to many RL issues, that continue to multiply, instead of leading me back here... As always, the hope remains ????

I have experience with A25 (second Labyrinth), even though that was years ago. Would love to get involved again.

The stuff I am more interested is expanding the MD realm itself rather than modifying existing scenes.

Edited October 17, 20187 yr by DARK DEMON