Hello Alex. On 01-Apr-00, you wrote: A> We (the CircleMUD Development team, comprised of Jeremy Elson, George A> Greer, Daniel Koepke, and Alex Fletcher) have been in discussions with the A> Electronic Arts gaming company for the last several weeks, and have A> concluded talks late last night (Friday March 31, 2000). We will be A> signing a contract in San Diego this coming Friday (April 7, 2000) to A> begin work on an online graphical game designed to compete with such other A> games as EverQuest (tm), Ultima Online (tm), and Asheron's Call (tm). A> A> The CircleMUD team was contacted just under two months ago after the body A> of work came to the attention of an EA project Manager after being A> featured in a New York Times article on online gaming. The CircleMUD A> project is an open source, not for profit game derived from DikuMud, and A> currently is considered one of the most bug free game source projects A> available. A> A> After six weeks of discussion, the two groups have finally come to an A> agreement for the new game project. Unfortunately, this will mean that A> the CircleMUD project will soon be coming to an end, and we will be A> looking for members of the CircleMUD community who are interested and A> willing to take over the plethora of code and support needs of the system. A> A> The expected release date for the new game project, currently titled Gates A> of Hadron, is Spring 2001. Allow me to congratulate and wish you good luck in your new game project. It is sad to see you leave the circlemud community, nevertheless I am sure someone as competent as you will take over. Once again, congratulations and good luck! -- /Damian/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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