Social verbs

Social verbs in online games are gestures that do not change the meaning of an object. They provide characters non-verbal communication in MUD, MOO or MMOGs.

For example, a character may ::wave:: as a gesture, but other characters are not compelled to respond.

Online games and some social software provide a richer form of expression than emoticons common in instant messaging sessions.

MUDs

Major branches	AberMUD DikuMUD LPMud LPC MU*

Minor branches, codebases, libraries	DGD GodWars Merc MOO Mudlibs MudOS MUSH Talker TinyMUD TinyMUCK

Concepts, terminology	Alternate character Avatar Avatar customization Bartle taxonomy of player types Buff Camping Computer game bot Consider Cybersex God Gold farming Gold sink Griefer Grinding Hack and slash Immortal Implementer Kill stealing Lag Looting Mob / Monster MUD client Comparison MUD trees Mudflation Nerf Online creation Online wedding Persistent world Player character Player versus environment Player versus player / Playerkilling Powerleveling Quest Remort Rent Spam Spawning spod Social verbs Syntax guessing Tank Twinking Virtual good Wizard Zone / Area

Publications	Designing Virtual Worlds Imaginary Realities Life on the Screen "A Rape in Cyberspace" "A Story About a Tree" Terra Nova A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Companies, organizations	Areae Iron Realms Entertainment Jagex Lysator Kesmai The Mud Connector Mythic Entertainment Plaintext Players Simutronics Skotos XYZZY Award

People	Alan Cox Amy S. Bruckman Andrew Gower Ben Laurie Brad McQuaid Brian Green Bruce Woodcock Cat Rambo Chip Morningstar Christopher Howard Wolf Dr. Cat Edward Castronova Elonka Dunin Espen J. Aarseth Greg Stein J. Todd Coleman James Aspnes Jason Scott Sadofsky John Viega Joi Ito Judy Malloy Julian Dibbell Kelton Flinn Lars Pensjö Lennart Augustsson Lisbeth Klastrup Mark Jacobs Matt Mihaly Michael Lawrie Michael Seifert Mizuko Ito Nick Yee Noah Wardrip-Fruin Paul Barnett Pavel Curtis Randy Farmer Rich Skrenta Richard Bartle Sherry Turkle Stephanie Shaver Steve Yegge T. L. Taylor Wes Platt

MUDs	3Kingdoms Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands Alter Aeon AmberMUSH Ancient Anguish Armageddon ATHEMOO Avalon: The Legend Lives AVATAR BatMUD BurningMUD Castle Marrach Costello Dark Age of Camelot Darkness Falls: The Crusade DartMUD Discworld MUD Diversity University Dragon's Gate DragonRealms DragonSpires Dune II Elendor Empire EverQuest Federation II Furcadia FurryMUCK GemStone IV Genesis LPMud Genocide God Wars II Habitat Holy Mission ifMUD Infinity (AberMUD) Infinity (LPMud) Island of Kesmai JediMUD LambdaMOO LegendMUD Lost Souls MAD MOOSE Crossing MUD1 MUD2 Medievia Meridian 59 MicroMUSE MorgenGrauen Muddy Waters NannyMUD Nightmare LPMud Northern Lights Nuclear War MUD PernMUSH Ragnarök The Realm Online Realms of Despair The Ruins of Cawdor RuneScape The Shadow of Yserbius Shattered World Star Wars MUSH Threshold TinyTIM TorilMUD TriadCity TubMUD Ultima Online Wyvern Xyllomer

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