David Ethan Kennerly

Ethan encourages creativity among developers and players. He helped organize MUD-Dev Conferences, and founded an online library of fan fiction. Ethan has authored on game design for Charles River Media, ITT Tech, Westwood College, Gamasutra.com, and IGDA.

Following are the detailed credits for:

• Games
• Publications
• System Design
• Level Design

System Design

Dark Ages: Online Roleplaying

• Religion
  Eight interactive religions. Each religion is player-run and fully interactive. Players can pray for over a hundred unique miracles. Priests can host a mass, which provides a multiplayer ceremony and an alternative to combat gameplay. Each religion is complete with its own temple, allied religions, enemy religions, and methods for controlling membership. Each player acrues faith points, which enable access to miracles, consecrated items, status, and other benefits of the religion. Religions cooperate and compete with each other in a religion-versus-religion faction system.
• Politics
  Two player-run villages. Each village is staffed by players, from mayor to judge to guard. Players write, publish, amend, and enforce their own laws. Players run a justice system with judges and officers. There is an integrated clout rating, which enables players to cooperate or compete with each other and participate in political player-versus-player system of voting, intrigue, and alliance.
• Legends
  A social prestige system, which publicly displays glorious and shameful deeds. This is integrated into all of the systems and quests.
• Labor
  An integrated system of supply and demand. Each player acrues labor points each day, which may be spent on crafting, special quests, or traded to other players. The system creates a dynamic check and balance for the player economy. Even the fastest solo-players must cooperate to gain additional labor.
• Crafting
  Creation of new items. Tailoring of new types of clothing. From sword smithing to hair styling, each player type has a unique good to offer. Players may cooperate during crafting to increase the quality of their work.
• Multiplayer Quests
  Dating quests, group quests, and other multiplayer quests. These quests are especially written and scripted for multiple players. They often require the communication and cooperation of the participants to compete.
• Arena
  A player-operated arena. A host may select teams, manage spectators, and acquire prestige for hosting battles.
• Elements
  Rocks-paper-scissors relationships between four medieval elements. This enables a wizard to select the proper attack and group defense for an opponent of a given element.
• Monastery
  Class-specific (monk) training monastery. Players may recruit students, learn new martial arts, and advance in rank through an automated examination process.
• Creative Contests
  Players receive in-game status, items, and exclusive positions as awards in fan art and literature contests. In addition, I founded a fan library and edited over 400 fan publications.
• Fair
  Player-operated fair, where politicians can license merchants to sell goods in the fair. In addition, there are player-operated amusements and theater.
• College
  Prestigious contest winners can become professors of the college, host classes, and award students experience points as an alternative to combat.
• Guild Management
  Player-operated guilds. Players can create and manage their guild memberships.
• Marriage
  Player marriage. Priests may marry two other players. Both church (heterosexual) and fairy (homosexual) marriages available.

Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds

• Subpaths
  Co-created with Kevin Saunders. Twelve specalizations for high-level players. These specializations include exclusive areas, clothing, items, abilities, and boards for communication. These are player-run organizations with their own features for administrating membership.
• Arena
  A player-operated arena, with features for team selection, balance analysis, spectator management, and administrating an arena.

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• Police
  Player game masters (GMs) that administer the game. This system includes automated polling systems for measuring popularity of the GMs.

Level Design

Here are my favorite massively multiplayer role-playing game (MMORPG) events and missions that I wrote, scripted, and, level-designed.

Dark Ages: Online Roleplaying

• The Pentagram, Halloween, 2000
  
• The Rebellion, Independence Day, 2000
  
• Redemption, Easter, 2000
• Nightmare, February, 2000
• The Heart, Valentine, 2000
• The Eulogy, Thanksgiving, 1999
  • Trinity, Octave, Ceremony, Origin, Relic, Anaman, Invocation & Conclusion.
• The Pact, Halloween, 1999
  • Loures Sewers Clogged, Death of a Councilor, Natesh Awakened, Conclusion.
• The Letter, Fall, 1999. Re-released Fall, 2000.
  
• The Sacrifice, Fall, 1999
  
  • Loures Forces in Undine, Summoner's Dream, Daughter Kidnapped, Suomi Unstruck, Wolf's Bane, The Sacrifice, Children at Astrid, Conclusion.
• The Entreaty, Harvest, 1999
  
  • Conclusion

Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds

• The Shattering, with Kevin Saunders, Halloween, 1998
  
  • [Archive]
• Sonhi Revenge, Fall, 1998
  
• Shore Raid, Fall, 1998
  
• LinSkrae's Deceit, Summer, 1998
  
• KaKhan's Threat, Summer, 1998
  
• The Onyx, Summer, 1998
  
• Mupa's Curse, Spring, 1998
  
• Darkchild, Spring, 1998
  
• The War of Hearts, Spring, 1998