How to Be a God
A Guide for Would-be Deities
Richard A Bartle
NotByUs Press 2023
Pb, 635pp, £15.20, ISBN 9780955649493
Richard Bartle designs Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMOs). He has been doing it for many years, and is no doubt very good at it. It involves the creation of “pocket universes” or “realities”. The architecture and function of the “realities” are wholly controlled by the designer, and the designer, accordingly, is sometimes referred to as a “god”.
Since he has actual experience of being such a “god”, and making decisions typically made only by gods, Bartle considers that he is a position “to help answer some of the questions that have
