A self-professed madman, desperately hanging on to his dated 18-year-old MUD, refusing to believe that big business MMORPGs have replaced this archaic form of entertainment.
Vryce constantly writes how Medievia will become popular with hundreds of thousands of players online. (At its height, Medievia had 700 simultaneous players online after a fullpage PC Gamer advertisement. Now it averages 100-150, mostly all old-time players.)
He is currently obsessed with his latest iteration of the Medievia codebase, to be launched in Q1 2010.
Quotes:
"Being the man who has to decide what the game is and how it will be played is like staring infinity right in the face. I am not normal because of it all." (ANNOUNCEMENT 783)
"I am going to torch the old game. Kiss it good bye ... There will be hardly any testing before changes are moved to the public server. I am asking you to test for me. To be honest I am ordering you to do it. I give you no choice at all." (Vryce's Journal, "266 days left")
"You are my bitch if you log in, and if you mouth off against the war (gameplay changes) you will be put down (banned)." (Vryce's Journal, "266 days left")
"We all know my madness will not be satisfied with a few thousand people online. I have devoted my life to this. I want the world. I want google falling over backwards to somehow yank Medievia from our grip ... I want millions of people playing Medievia." (Vryce's Journal, "259 days left")