Habitat (video game)

Habitat is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by LucasArts. It is the first attempt at a large-scale commercial virtual community that was graphically based. The game was initially created in 1985 by Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar, and made available as a beta test in 1986 by Quantum Link, an online service for the Commodore 64 computer and the corporate progenitor to America Online. Both Farmer and Morningstar were given a "First Penguin Award" at the 2001 Game Developers Choice Awards for their innovative work on Habitat. As a "graphical MUD" it is considered a forerunner of modern MMORPGs it was quite unlike other online communities of the time (i.e. MUDs and massively multiplayer onlines with text-based interfaces). The Habitat had a GUI and large us

Habitat (video game)

Habitat is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by LucasArts. It is the first attempt at a large-scale commercial virtual community that was graphically based. The game was initially created in 1985 by Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar, and made available as a beta test in 1986 by Quantum Link, an online service for the Commodore 64 computer and the corporate progenitor to America Online. Both Farmer and Morningstar were given a "First Penguin Award" at the 2001 Game Developers Choice Awards for their innovative work on Habitat. As a "graphical MUD" it is considered a forerunner of modern MMORPGs it was quite unlike other online communities of the time (i.e. MUDs and massively multiplayer onlines with text-based interfaces). The Habitat had a GUI and large us