http://www.brandeis.edu/pubs/jove/HTML/v1/bartle.html
Which type are you? Discuss.
There were tons of scholarly articles in the early to mid nineties about MUDs and their social dynamics. It's kind of sad to think about, since the genre as a whole is in a slow, spiraling death plunge.
Someone shoot Cale_knight for that Heresy.
I'm a Killa.I wouldn't be playing if this game didn't have people dyeing. Killa.
Killers says things like:
"Ha!"
"Coward!"
"Die!"
"Die! Die! Die!"
(Killers are people of few words).
You can tell the article is old, because now it's: "D13 J0U N00B!!!!"
That article makes my brain hurt. Way too analytical for me.
I thought the look at socializers and killers was hysterical....
Killers think OOCly, "Are the |/\/\ /\/\ S \/\/ /-\ Tching me?"