Multiplayer Game Design Class - The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game - page 70

Figure 6.1
RTV Room 226.

With students locked into rows, the zones could not be as elegantly separated as
in the Ballantine classroom where guilds could maneuver chairs to speak to one
another, or where opposing guilds could face off in intellectual PvP battles.
Instead, members of the six guilds —

would each be clustered together in a couple of rows that were designated as
zones.

— four with seven members, two with six

Zones
These zones were named after prominent designers of virtual worlds.

n Dungeon of Bartle. Named for Richard Bartle. In addition to writing
our primary text, Bartle was co-designer with Roy Trubshaw of MUD,
the first virtual world in 1979.
n Garriott Gardens. Named after Richard Garriott, designer of the Ultima
series of role-playing games. Ultima 4 was notable as one of the first solo
games to feature moral choices, which affected the development of the
player s avatar. Ultima Online , released in 1997, was the first MMO to

truly earn the title

'

“ massive � with over 100,000 players at its peak.