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Revision as of 23:52, 23 August 2014

Updated 8/2014

Contact Info

• Kim Andrus
• work: kandrus@eli.ua.edu
• misc: kmndrs@gmail.com
• cell: 435-213-6623
• best for game communications: Avendar Forum msg, note to Dovolente on prod or dev, or gmail. Others OK in a pinch.

Biographical Blurb

• Idaho farmboy
• Lived in Guatemala for 2 years as an LDS missionary, now post-Mormon
• BA English, Idaho State U; MA TESOL, Bowling Green State U
• Married with 4 children
• presently an English language & Global Studies instructor and MA TESOL/new faculty mentor at the University of Alabama
• Just trying to make it from one Dresden Files release to another. :)

Other

• Played Nightfall (German-based LP MUD?), TrekMOO 2, Genocide (Pure PK) and Carrionfields prior to Avendar
• Started in Avendar on the MUD's opening day & immed in the fall of the first year (1998)
• tinkering with UMC content in general is a hobby: maps/scenarios/mods/misc for Doom II, DukeNuke'em 3D, TrekMOO 2, Avendar, Age of Kings, Battle for Wesnoth, Battleforge, Dwarf Fortress

Development Ideas

prod/interactions

• http://avendar.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=322&view=next - facilitating player-run groups (Kes)

Involves Building

• http://avendar.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3068&view=next - good ideas for new magic items (Ramc et al)
• http://avendar.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4690&view=next -
• http://avendar.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3065&view=next - what we need to do with factions (Sae) -inc some coding
• http://avendar.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3144&view=next - some examples of the above (Sae et al)
• http://avendar.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=300&view=next - more hometown options + creation coding (Ramc)

http://avendar.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3165&view=next - Mercanaries (Flux)

Involves Setting Development

• http://avendar.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1598&view=next - fleshing out demonlords/seraph info - canonize more detail? (Ramc)
• http://avendar.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3436&view=next - post-sundering anti-deity lore stuff (Yzeek)
• expand the Borders so we can begin to think beyond the developed Great Continent. Canonize world-type and map the continents. Rough sketches of basic features on other continents.

Involves Coding

• DONE! improve examine (Chadim)
• DONE! a startingpoint for making AC meaningful (Brazen)
• zodiac / birthsigns
• stones of power could be much cooler + progging (Kestrel)
• adjustments to alignment byond NPCkill (Chadim et al)
• game stat-tracking (Dov)
• revising generic scholar spells (Dov)
• professions (Brazen)
• giving other class groupings minor/major/greater (Ramc)