General : The Written World Preview

The Written World is not your run of the mill MMO. As the name implies, story is the key ingredient. We've got a first-look preview of The Written World, something that storytellers and fans of lore will definitely want to check out.

Uniquely referred to as a Massively Multiplayer Online Write ‘Em Up, the groundwork for The Written World was first laid five years ago. It was back then that Simon Fox, the taller half of Playlab London, ran a writing group with friends exploring the act of collaborative story-telling. Having all played Dungeons and Dragons for years, they discovered something rather interesting when trying to have two people author a story together. Whilst two people working on a block of text frequently stalled, as soon as people got together and focused on building worlds instead, then their ability to populate them with stories became much greater.

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