Archive:CisLunarFreighter/Specifications

What should the user experience be like?

An overview of the game's major requirements:

• Entertainment -- should be fun.
  
• Social -- Interaction with other people via
  • Chat -- most mud environments allow this
  • Email -- useful or not?
  • Game consequences -- makes the game more interesting
• Educational - Exposure to some science, engineering, and operations concepts
  • Math practice
  • Reading around the web
  • Use of open source tools for modding
  • Software design and coding techniques

Hardware requirements

The game client and server should run on any adequate performance desktop. It is not intended as a primary focus to meet the needs of the emerging hand-held computing and communications markets.