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''Lost Souls'' is a MUD, a text-based online role-playing game set in a medieval fantasy world. It has an extensive history of technical innovation in its field and has received critical praise. ==History== ''Lost Souls'' was founded in 1990〔〔 by Michael "Almior" Rice and several associates. It distinguished itself early on with software features, then innovative among MUDs (and still less than ubiquitous),〔 such as an overland-map-style environment,〔〔 realistic combat,〔〔 a language barrier,〔〔 and a limb model for characters supporting anatomies significantly different from that of humans,〔〔 that earned it positive critical response.〔〔 Subsequent developments have included the ''atman'' (an account system through which players can manage multiple characters, improving on the typical MUD arrangement where the character ''is'' the account),〔 a detailed model of the physical makeup of objects and the organs of living beings, a 3D evolution of the "overland map" allowing free flight across the world, use of A * search for pathfinding (and publishing the code for doing so),〔 a detailed skill model,〔 an innovative system for psychic wild talents, accessibility support for vision-impaired players using screen reader software, and character development through exploration rather than combat. ''Lost Souls'' was an early mover into the Web among MUDs, registering its domain lostsouls.org in April 1995,〔 after previously maintaining a Web presence at lostsouls.desertmoon.com.〔 As a result, it is one of the four sites cited in the LPMud FAQ〔 (now a frozen document), only two of which are still online and MUD-related (the other being BatMUD's site). The game's Web presence has become an important part of its service offering, including an extensive, mostly player-edited wiki and spawning several players' character blogs.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lost Souls (online game)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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