# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-bartle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:51:04.901Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-bartle"
name: "Richard Bartle"
slug: "richard-bartle"
description: "Richard Allan Bartle is a British writer, professor and game researcher in the massively multiplayer online game industry. He co-created MUD1 in 1978, and is the author of the 2003 book Designing Virtual Worlds."
tagline: "British writer, video game designer and computer scientist (born 1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Bartle%2C_2011_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.29402666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3841164/"
    handle:    "nm3841164"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://mud.co.uk/richard/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri%C3%A7ard_Bartl"
    title: "Riçard Bartl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle"
    title: "Richard Bartle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle"
    title: "Richard Bartle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle"
    title: "Richard Bartle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%84"
    title: "ریچارد بارتل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle"
    title: "Richard Bartle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle"
    title: "Richard Bartle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A6'%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%9C"
    title: "ריצ'רד ברטל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle"
    title: "Richard Bartle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%90%86%E6%9F%A5%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E5%B7%B4%E7%89%B9%E7%88%BE"
    title: "理查德·巴特爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2149039"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2584689"
    title: "Richard Bartle"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump