Unfortunately, this rewrite took significant amounts of time (and money) away from Cyan, who hadn't had a notable product since Riven, with the exception of the minor realMyst release. In order to make Mudpie feasible, Plasma had to be rewritten, leading to version 20, with much improved networking facilities, and the ability to easily script Ages using the Python language. Mudpie mostly reflected a similar storyline to that of DIRT, but put a lot more focus on the City with the multi-player aspect, interaction in the City becomes a lot more feasible and realistic, leading to such ideas as a collaborative restoration effort, or, as in Uru, one led by a controversial organization, the DRC. This idea has been carried over to Uru and is perhaps most clearly visible through the avatar customization options: Cyan has over the years added additional adjustments such as more clothing, more distinct facial complexions, more hairstyles, etc., to make the avatar match the real-life appearance (or, at least, the appearance a user would like to have in real life when exploring) as closely as possible. In Mudpie, however, the user is not meant to play a role they are to be true to themselves. To date, virtually every MMOG implementation is a role-playing one MMOG is therefore often considered synonymous with MMORPG. Most importantly, Mudpie stepped away from the single-player nature of DIRT, radically replacing it with a multi-user model, commonly known as Massively multiplayer online game. The E is typically regarded as meaning Environment or Experience.The I is sometimes lengthened to Integrated, but more frequently to Interactive, alluding to the unparalleled amount of influence every player has on the story, another key aspect to the game.The P can mean Person or Player, signifying the role a user of Mudpie has: unusually, the role they play is themselves.The D can represent D'ni or DIRT ( D'ni In Real Time), the project Mudpie was original based on (DIRT, however, was exclusively single-player).(Uru, however, is both single- and multi-user). The MU can stand for Multi-user, referring to the fact that Mudpie was, exclusively, a multi-user game.Still, the backronyms are a reasonable, accurate description of the project's objectives: acronyms whose original meaning was apparently never actually agreed upon. The name is both a basis of jokes (regarding Mud Pie ice cream, Mud Pie cookies, etc.) as well as of backronyms, i.e. Mudpie was the codename for Cyan's project that eventually led to the release of Uru, but had conceptual differences.
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