I should mention that I do have a ton of ideas for it, but little 
time/funding. Like attaching it to Croquet. Also, the map from the 
objects to spatial regions is supposed to be pluggable - 2d grids vs. 
3-d vs. topological graphs. So if you want to maintain it, feel free to 
bounce ideas off me for feedback.

On Mar 9, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Brian Rice wrote:

> Ah, I'm that SIMS author. It's incomplete, and was written as a 
> one-off exercise. If you want to take over the ownership of the 
> package, just say so.
>
> I'm basically too busy with Slate now and will probably just work on 
> whatever improvements I have in mind there.
>
> On Mar 9, 2005, at 2:16 AM, Blake wrote:
>
>> I've been looking at using Squeak for MUD/MOO/MUSH purposes.
>>
>> I see there is SqueakSIMS, though it seems to have rotted. (In the 
>> sense of generating MNUs under a basic 3.7 image.)
>>
>> Now, it seems to me that there are three (at least) components needed:
>>
>> 1. A collaborative space (some way for clients to share the common 
>> experience and communicate with each other, as well as affect the 
>> space).
>>
>> 2. A game framework/ruleset/etc. (This could be broken down a bunch 
>> of ways.)
>>
>> 3. Content.
>>
>> It seems like SIMS does #2--I don't see any collaborative stuff or 
>> any content.
>>
>> What I'm interested in NOT doing myself is #1. If nothing else, it 
>> seems like Croquet ought to fill that need. Or whatever Croquet is 
>> based on.
>>
>> Anyone have thoughts on this?
>>
>> 	===Blake===
>>
>>
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