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Bartle, Richard Allan was born on January 10, 1960 in Ripon, England. Son of Frederick Allan Bartle and Edith Anne Toase.
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Bartle, Richard Allan was born on January 10, 1960 in Ripon, England. Son of Frederick Allan Bartle and Edith Anne Toase.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 1st class honors, Essex (England) University, Colchester, 1981; Doctor of Philosophy in Artificial Intelligence, Essex (England) University, Colchester, 1988.
He is one of the pioneers of the massively multiplayer online game industry. He lectured at Essex until 1987, when he left to work full-time on MUD (known as MUD2 in its present version). Recently he has returned to the university as a part-time professor and principal teaching fellow in the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems, supervising courses on computer game design as part of the department"s degree course on computer game development.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
In 2003, he wrote Designing Virtual Worlds, a book about the history, ethics, structure, and technology of massively multiplayer games. Bartle is also a contributing editor to Terra Nova, a collaborative blog that deals with virtual world issues.
Bartle did research on player personality types in virtual worlds. In Bartle"s analysis, players of virtual worlds can be divided into four types: achievers, explorers, socializers and killers.
This idea has been adapted into an online test generally referred to as the Bartle Test, which is quite popular, with scores often exchanged on massively multiplayer online games forums and networking sites.
Richard Bartle has compared game players distaste for permanent death to general distaste for pedophilia.
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Member Society for Study Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior.
Married Gail Christine Martin, April 13, 1985. Children: Jennifer Gail, Madeleine Anne.
