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Phantasmal - Some Day

Every so often, a good idea slides by me and I think, "hey! That should go into Phantasmal!". Such ideas accumulate here as I write them up in enough detail to remember them later and use them if I'm so inclined.

Designing for (Eventual) Phantasmal - Visibility, Actions and Events

• Various mostly-original speculations on Object Grouping and its relatives.
• Speculations on Class Heirarchy and how it affects other aspects of the MUD.
• Speculations on Visibility in the MUD, including details on perception, object grouping and event grouping.
• Actions and Events, and how Phantasmal might deal with them.
• Phantasmal's Event Model, further pondering.
• Propagation of sound, light, temperature, smell, etc in terms of perceptual thresholds and difficulty.
• Terms when referring to various occurrences

Designing for Phantasmal - Precedence of Scripted Object Actions

• Player and Mobile Actions
• Verbs, Notifications and Preventing Actions
• Code in Phantasmal Mobiles

Long-Term Phantasmal Building

• A rough dependency graph for what components require what other components

Other stuff

Problems, which lists somewhat vaguely any problems with the current design any developer may happen to find. Most of the gripes here are by Shentino, Phantasmal's new project admin.