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What is TriadCity?
Our flagship offering, TriadCity, is a large-scale, text-based
multi-user role playing game with a literary orientation, currently
in beta.
Role-playing games
are fairly common; this one is different. Where many games
focus on "kill the monster" style adventuring,
TriadCity explores themes which have been central to Western
culture: good and evil, city and country, nature and
civilization, personal and collective identities, violence
and nonviolence, freedom and slavery.
Large-scale
means the sheer scope of possible player experience is much larger
than most imaginary environments. Where a large adventure-style
MUD might have 3,000 rooms, TriadCity will have more than 100,000
when complete, with tens of thousands of automated and non-automated
characters interacting. And this includes just the world inside
the city walls: a potentially infinite world awaits outside.
Literary orientation
means that narrative techniques from the novel and other
traditions are incorporated, such as voice, point of view,
characterization, plot, and so on. Various forms of
subjectivity are imposed on the characters which players
create, some relative, some radical. This means that
character histories and views of the world are potentially
unique to each individual player. You can learn more by
reading our essay,
"Can a Game Be Literature?".
Beta
means the game is in an early state. There's little to do or
look at right now, compared to what will be available as we grow.
Look for the game world and the available player commands to greatly
expand as work progresses.
It's easy to get started. If you're not already a member, click
here to join SmartMonsters. Then use
the links at left to learn what to do to get started. Meet you in
the City!
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"Like the bricoleur, Eliot extracts certain elements (generally sentences or lines) from organized wholes of various nature, and chooses precisely those elements which are capable of performing a new fuction, more or less distanced from the original, in the new structure. [...] The 'fragment' has become a function: what is striking is no longer that it is dislocated and mangled, but that it possesses a precise meaning and role, and that it contributes effectively towards the composition of a new organized whole."
-- Franco Moretti,
Signs Taken for Wonders (info)
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What is TriadCity?
