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Richard Allan Bartle is a British writer and game researcher, best known for being the co-author of MUD, the first multi-user dungeon.

Bartle created MUD (along with Roy Trubshaw) in 1978 at the University of Essex, where he received a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence. He lectured at Essex until 1987, when he left to work full time on MUD. Recently he returned to the university as a part-time professor in the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems, supervising courses on computer game design.

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 massively-multiplayer online games, which he divided into four types: achievers, explorers, socializers and killers. This idea has been adapted into an online test referred to as the Bartle Test.

==Links==
*Wikipedia article on Bartle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle
*Wikipedia article on the Bartle test: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_Test
*Bartle's website: http://mud.co.uk/richard
*Bartle's personal blog: http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog
*Terranova: http://terranova.blogs.com
*For a list of links about Prokofy's dispute with Bartle: http://dantonsotherblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/some-recent-prok-posts-and-their-links.html

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