CREDITS

TerraFirmA is the product of many years of development work by several groups of people. This page attempts to chronicle some of the work that has been carried out over the years.

Since its first incarnation as Terradome at Oxford Brookes, Terra has been constantly striving to achieve something unique in the Aber community. Whilst this may have driven us from the Aber fold somewhat, the experience offered within TerraFirmA is very different to that found in many other MUDs.

Through the migration of Terradome to Denmark, and then the birth of TerraFirmA, the Terra Adventure Engine has been constantly refined to improve the underlying codebase that the mud runs upon. Massive restructuring and recoding of the legacy code from Dirt has paved the way for some extremely innovative systems and the policy of adding unique, unused zones has ensured that the challenge of making Untouchable remains one of the best around.

CURRENT DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Terra Administrator

Dale Baldwin (Dale)

Internal Design

Dale Baldwin (Dale)

Other Coding

Jimmy Wilson (Lister)

Angela Somerville (Nirvana)

Abi Brady (Morwen)

Web Site

Angela Somerville (Nirvana)

Other Administration

Kate Moore (Firefly)

DEVELOPMENT OF TERRA ADVENTURE ENGINE TO VERSION 5.0

Terra Administrator

Todd Papaioannou (Luckyspin)

Systems Design

Chris Williams (Cyn)

Internal Design

Todd Papaioannou (Luckyspin)

Web Site

Brenda Mondragon (BabyGirl)

Other Administration

Trina Williams (Bambi)

Special Help

Gert Ohl (Gohl)

DEVELOPMENT OF TERRA ADVENTURE ENGINE TO VERSION 1.5

Terra Author

David Riddell McGhee (Boogie)

Additional Internal Design

Mark Crawford (Vardick)

Nick Jackson (Gly)

Richard Cave (Astar)

Richard Green (Vert)

Additional External Help

Ithor, Kender, ErIC, Balladar

Original Dirt Code Authors

Alf Salte and Gjermund Sorserth

Original AberMUD Scenario Design

Richard Acott, Alan Cox, Jim Finnis

Original Zones Used

Abyss : Abaddon Ancient : Elmo Catacomb : Rassilon Desert : Elmo Eastcoast : Damalon EForest : Dinithiar Grove : Gaea Oaktree : Orca Nibelung : Lightsword Orchold : Rassilon Pirate : Hamlet

Local Zone Work

Zone : Zone Writer/Orig. Ed. (Puzzle Coder or TerraScripter) Yr of Origin on Terra Cartoon : Boogie (Boogie) 1994 Beach : Boogie (Boogie) 1994 Icecave : Snail (Snail & Boogie) 1994 Labyrinth : Snail & Gly (Snail & Gly) 1994 Turtle : Garet & Boogie (Boogie) 1994 Abyss : Xenon (Boogie) 1994 Oaktree : Ithor (Ithor & Boogie) 1994 Genesis : Gly (Luckyspin) 1996 Waste : Astar & Asgaurd (Boogie) 1994 Sherwood : Gly (Boogie) 1995 Silicon : Boogie & Daedelus (Boogie, Astar, Daedelus) 1995 Harbour : Gly (Boogie) 1994 Opera : Snail (Snail & Boogie) 1994 Tundra : Gly Island : Gly (Boogie) 1994 Farm : Gly (Snail & Boogie) 1994 (Updated : Firefly (Firefly) 2000) Eastcoast : Gly (Boogie) 1994 Oracle : Gly (Boogie) 1994 Wedding : Boogie 1994 Castle : Astar (Snail) 1994 Nibelung : Ithor (Ithor & Boogie) 1994 Forest : Garet (Boogie) 1994 Glacier : Gly 1994 Cottage : Gly (Boogie) Hamelin : Gly (Luckyspin) 1995 Calaedonia : Gly (Boogie) Common : Gly (Luckyspin) 1995 Citadel : Lukie (Luckyspin) 1995 Beilefeld : Luckyspin (Luckyspin) 1995 Clockshop : Gly (Vert) Cavern : Gly (Vert & Luckyspin) 1995 Rome : Lucas (Vert) 1995 Angels : BabyGirl (Cyn) 1996 Rescue : Luckyspin & Azrael (Luckyspin) 1996 Wombles : Cyn (Cyn) 1997 Newbie : Lister & BabyGirl (Luckyspin) 1997 Prague : Gimbal (Lister & Nirvana) 1997 Cave : Lucas (Boogie/Lucas) 1994 (Quest: 1998) Vampire : Lister (Lister) 1998 Turfe : Firefly (Cyn) 1998-99 Tomb : Cyn & Bambi (Cyn) 1999 Majick : Lister (Lister) 1999 Jigsaw : Dale (Robert) 1999 Whale : Dale (Dale) 1999 Caravan : Bambi (Cyn) 1999 Mine : Cyn (Cyn) 2000 Ythcaren : Cyn (Cyn) 2000 Nightmare : Dale (Dale) 2000 Vortex : Dale (Dale) 2000 Hell : Flea (Flea/Dale) 2000 Grimoire : Bambi (Bambi) 2000 Sewer : Dale (Dale) 2001 Commerce : Bambi & Flea 2001 Dragon : Dale (Dale) 2002 Silverthorn : Milkyeyes (Lister) 2002 Palace : Dale (Dale) 2002 Treespirit : Dale (Dale) 2002 Thieves : Nirvana (Nirvana) 2002 Underwater : Bagpuss (Lister) 2003 Vengeance : Dale (Dale) 2003 Grasscove : Milkyeyes (Dale) 2003 Werewolves : Dale (Dale) 2004 Apothecary : Dale (Dale) 2004 Christmas : Bliss (Dale) 2004 Bedlam : Dale (Dale) 2005 Deadisle : Dale (Dale) 2005 Escape : Astar (Dale) 2005 Gremlin : Dale (Dale) 2006 Myce : Dale (Dale) 2006 Princess : BabyGirl (BabyGirl) 2000 (Updated: Dale (Dale) 2007) Vault : Lister (Lister) 2011

THE TERRAFORMING PROJECT (MID 1996 TO EARLY 1997)

This was a mammoth project that undertook to redesign the entire layout of the world of TerraFirmA. Recognising the fact that the game world had become extremly cluttered and disjointed the project was set up to rework the internal layout of the game, to offer a more logical land that had continuity, flavour and history. The project was envisaged and overseen by Luckyspin, with BabyGirl, Lucas and Firefly doing the extensive zone work. All coding required for the project was done by Luckyspin.

MAJICK SYSTEM (1999)

The Majick system is a data-driven spellcasting system devised for TF. The system allows spells to be defined outside of the code base. New Spells can be created (or existing ones modified) simply and easily. The system was designed by Cyn, with Bambi creating the majority of the spells.

TERRASCRIPT (1999)

The idea to bring in a fully operational puzzle scripting language was dreamt of by Terra for many years. It took Cyn to make this become a reality. The language, compiler and runtime system born represent a truly unique and easy way for non-technical people to code puzzles and fully blown quests. The original language was designed by Cyn with comments from Luckyspin. The systems programming, script compiler, stack management systems, UI interfaces and run time system were designed, written and implemented by Cyn.

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