Original "credits" from 94, not sure if the line naming Morgion is a mistake or if there was a different person with the name originally
A project as large as Arctic has been can only be successful through the
co-operation of many people. This file is an attempt to thank everyone
who was responsible for Arctic.
The original game idea, concept, and design of DikuMud are due to:
Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, Hans Henrik Staerfeldt, Michael Seirfert,
and Sebastian Hammer.
The base code that we began with had additional contributions from:
Michael Curran, Ragnar Loenn, and Bill Wisner.
In the early days, the following people contributed code, some of which
is still used in one form or another:
Jhalavar from Armageddon (Morgion here), Loki from Silly,
WhiteGold from Epic, Geraden Domme from Epic, Twilight from Epic,
Riverwind, Ariakas (Steve Hyatt), and Steve Lumetta (Valiar from Adversary)
We would like to give special mention to one of the legendary figures
of DikuMUD: Jeff Stine, otherwise known as Abaddon from Adversary.
Jeff supplied us with some useful code, but moreover inspired us to
strive for a "better mud". Adversary was one of the most stable, and
popular muds. One of our goals was to strive for the same image that
Adversary had.
Thanks to Alan Krantz, known as Muddy, for various ideas dealing with
performance optimization. Flash, who gave us some useful ideas.
The principle implementors of Arctic are:
Jason Fetterly (Paladine)
Dale "Fish" Woolridge (Fistandantilus)
Dean Gaudet (Lazarus)
Kitiara, just plain Kitiara
Christopher Boggs (Baphomet)
The following people are ostensibly "creators" however they have actually
had a much larger hand at shaping Arctic than the title "creator" merits:
Charles Passmore (Andred)
Jeremy Benson (Dalamar)
Darran Smith (Magius)
Scott Hart (Raistlin)
Additional creators of the Arctic world are:
Carsten Wimmer (Galan)
Dave Westfall (Pharoah)
Derek Orpen (Tasslehoff)
Eddie Krebs (Arack)
Eric McKenzie (Merp)
Fuddle
Mel Rogoff (Elistan)
Richard Gabriel (Reorx)
Roger Spotts (Seoman)
Finally we would like to thank the crew of beta testers who through
bug reports and ideas helped make Arctic a game worth playing. There
were many testers, so this list is probably incomplete:
Blast, Chester, Gizo, Khamul, Lionheart, Mozart, Seoman, Skye, Sparc,
Storm, Sardon, and Vanyel.
Arctic is very thankful for this site provided by Craig Luis (known as
Gilean) and Linfield College; and to Mel Rogoff for introducing us
to Craig. During our long development time we changed sites at least
four times. We are thankful to the old administrations for allowing us
to use their site for a short period of time.
We hope you enjoy the game.