Welcome to Sarien.net, the portal for reliving the classic Sierra On-Line adventure games. With its focus on instant fun and a unique multiplayer experience, Sarien.net hopes to win new gamers' hearts and promote the adventure game genre.

A RogueLike game written in less than 1kB of C# source

MAngband is a free online multiplayer real-time roguelike game, derived from the single player game Angband.

To win the game you must build up a character, selected from any one of 10 races and 6 classes, to be powerful enough to defeat Morgoth, Lord of Darkness, who lives in the dungeon 5000 feet below the surface of the town. As you work towards this near-impossible goal, you will chart unexplored dungeon passageways, do battle with legendary creatures, and find lost artifacts. And of course throughout your journeys you will encounter many other adventurers -- whether they be friend or foe is up to you to decide!

Welcome to the .NET Terrarium 2.0 project! Terrarium was created by members of the .NET Framework team in the .NET Framework 1.0 timeframe and was used initially as an internal test application. At conferences and via online chats, Terrarium provided a great way for developers to learn about the new .NET programming model and languages as they developed creatures and introduced them into a peer-to-peer ecosystem.

These pages contain a whole bunch of stuff about my personal philosophies on game design, and the state of game design. It leans heavily towards making a fantasy pre-industrial age MMORPG that is realistic, believable, balanced, and immersive. Some of these ideas and suggestions are applicable to all types of game design in any genre, from pen and paper to the MMORPG model. Some of them are specifically geared for computer-based systems. Some of them require server and wide area networking technology that is about 3 generations away.

Data generated as a side effect of game play also solves computational problems and trains AI algorithms.