Richard Bartle

Richard Bartle (2011)

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

In 1987 Richard Bartle suspended his professorship at the University of Essex to work on MUD2 . He returned to the university in 2006 in a half-job teaching game design in the Electronic Systems Engineering course .

In 2003 he wrote Designing Virtual Worlds , which deals with the development, history and characteristics of virtual worlds (especially MMORPGs ). It was very well received by the specialist audience. He also writes for the influential Terra Nova blog, along with a few other works .

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

Awards

• International Game Developers Association "First Penguin Award" ( 2005 ) Game Developers Choice Awards , for their part in the development of the first MUD.

Work

• Spellbinder , 1977 (also Waving Hands ). A pen & paper role-playing game first described in Bartle's Fanzine Sauce of the Nile [1] [2] .
• MUD , 1978. The first multi-user dungeon game
• Artificial Intelligence and Computer Games , 1985, ISBN 978-0712606615
• Designing Virtual Worlds , 2003, ISBN 978-0131018167

Web links and sources

• Richard Bartle's website
• Richard Bartle's blog
• Blog on Terra Nova
• GameSpy interview from October 27, 2003
• Sci-Tech Today from January 4, 2006 "Inside the Underground Economy of Computer Gaming"
• ( Nearthwort Obtain Interview (introduction, audio no longer available) ) from November 25, 2006
• Richard Bartle in the Internet Movie Database (English)