CHAPTER 2
Research Interlude
Marginal Improvement
Here are some brief highlights from my career of trying to get MMOs taken seriously as an object of academic study:
- Being told when proposing a topic for my PhD that no games were academically respectable except Chess and perhaps Go, and maybe Backgammon and Reversi/Othello, too.
- Being told by one of the Computing Department’s three ruling professors that I should change my research direction because games were of no more academic interest than word processors.
- When turning MUD1 commercial, having Essex University sign all its rights over to me because it didn’t want its reputation damaged by association with a game.
- Giving a seminar about a multiple-hierarchy object-oriented programming system and ...
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