1. Project WGMud Garfield Freeman David Hakanson Josh Jost Eli Stevens Joan Qiong Wang Mentor: Dr. Palaniappan I am Jack's massively multi-player online game. Without me, Jack would be unable to leverage his obsessive knowledge of Tolkien and Dungeons and Dragons into attention and admiration from female-presenting players.

2. Project Background First MMORPG: Ultima Online, 1997 Followed by Everquest, Asheron’s Call, World War II Online, Anarchy Online, Dark Age of Camelot More coming soon

3. More Background Multiplayer online fantasy games are not new First was MUD 1, in 1978 by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle Currently 1665 muds listed on the Mud Connector (www.mudconnector.com)www.mudconnector.com Many clones

4. Text Based Muds Lower dev costs Content is cheaper Everyone has a client

5. Web Interface Solution We are using PHP

6. Client Solution The provided client will be in Java However, any telnet client will be usable

7. Core Server The Server will be written in C++ Will make heavy use of templates, STL

8. Testing We will be using a lot of beta testing User feedback will be very important to balance the game and fix bugs DAoC used very similar methods

9. Scheduling

10. Thank God It’s Over Now give us high scores