Comments on: How the Tech Model Railroad Club Changed the World http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/11/how-the-tech-model-railroad-club-changed-the-world/ Rob MacDougall Dot Org Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robert (model railroad fan) Anderson http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/11/how-the-tech-model-railroad-club-changed-the-world/#comment-670 Robert (model railroad fan) Anderson Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:56:31 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/11/how-the-tech-model-railroad-club-changed-the-world/#comment-670 Model railroading is my hobby of choice. The world you create, where you create it, and how much time you spend in it... is entirely over to you. A highly recommended hobby! Model railroading is my hobby of choice. The world you create, where you create it, and how much time you spend in it… is entirely over to you. A highly recommended hobby!

]]> By: Bryant http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/11/how-the-tech-model-railroad-club-changed-the-world/#comment-669 Bryant Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:10:01 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/11/how-the-tech-model-railroad-club-changed-the-world/#comment-669 Good history. From the Turbine perspective, I'd add that one of the company's founders had been an undergrad at MIT (so the connection is there); more directly, everyone who started Turbine was at Brown University when the company started. Boston's gaming industry is very academically rooted, which is probably no surprise. Asheron's Call was certainly groundbreaking -- it was a race between AC and Everquest to see who'd have the first 3D environment on the market. AC also went for a relatively literary backstory. It was a big deal to the developers that AC didn't use elves, dwarves, and so forth. In a fairly real sense, you could think of AC as the Jorune/Tekumel/Talislanta of MMORPGs. Good history. From the Turbine perspective, I’d add that one of the company’s founders had been an undergrad at MIT (so the connection is there); more directly, everyone who started Turbine was at Brown University when the company started. Boston’s gaming industry is very academically rooted, which is probably no surprise.

Asheron’s Call was certainly groundbreaking — it was a race between AC and Everquest to see who’d have the first 3D environment on the market. AC also went for a relatively literary backstory. It was a big deal to the developers that AC didn’t use elves, dwarves, and so forth. In a fairly real sense, you could think of AC as the Jorune/Tekumel/Talislanta of MMORPGs.

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