Richard Bartle

British writer, video game designer and computer scientist (born 1960)

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2020

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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.

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