Richard Bartle

Richard Allan Bartle ( born January 10, 1960 in England ) is a British author and researcher of computer games and related areas ( such as artificial intelligence) and professor of computer game design at the University of Essex. He is considered a pioneer of MMORPGs. His best known work is the co -author of the original MUD, and as the author of "Designing Virtual Worlds". From his research on player types and preferences of the Bartle Test emerged.

1987 interrupted Richard Bartle his professorship at the University of Essex to devote to working on MUD2. He returned in 2006 returned to the University in a part-time job and taught in the degree in Electronic Systems Engineering game design.

In 2003 he wrote (especially MMORPGs) employs Designing Virtual Worlds, which deals with the development, history and the peculiarities of virtual worlds. It was very well received by the audience. In addition to some other works, he also writes for the influential and relevant blog Terra Nova.

Richard Bartle is currently a board member of areae Inc. and lives with his wife Gail and two daughters Jennifer and Madeleine near Colchester (England).

Awards

Working

  • Spellbinder, 1977 ( also Waving Hands). A pen -and- paper role-playing game that will first be described in Bartle 's fanzine Sauce of the Nile.
  • MUD, 1978., The first multi-user dungeon game
  • Artificial Intelligence and Computer Games, 1985, ISBN 978-0712606615
  • Designing Virtual Worlds, 2003, ISBN 978-0131018167

External links and sources

  • Richard Bartle 's Website
  • Richard Bartle 's blog
  • Bartle Test on gamerdna.com
  • Blog on Terra Nova
  • GameSpy interview of 27 October 2003
  • Sci- Tech Today January 4, 2006 " Inside the Underground Economy of Computer Gaming"
  • ( Nearthwort Obtain interview ( introduction, audio no longer available)) on November 25, 2006
  • Game developer
  • University teachers ( University of Essex )
  • Briton
  • Born in 1960
  • Man
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