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Anyone interested in RPGs owes it to themselves to apply for a character on Arm. One of the best and most seriously-undertaken computer games of all time.
Have a link? Searching "Arm RPG" brings up a lot of non-relevant stuff.
Anyone interested in RPGs owes it to themselves to apply for a character on Arm. One of the best and most seriously-undertaken computer games of all time.
Have a link? Searching "Arm RPG" brings up a lot of non-relevant stuff.
My favorite mud I played heavily during the 90s, AstroMUD, is still going strong. It's a pale shadow of its former self, but it's still there.
Genocide should have a book written about it, it was the first massively multiplayer online playerkilling game, the first FPS (in text). And it was awesome.
Still exists, of course, but hardly anyone plays.
I did this largely because I like punny names (the original name was Slack & Slash, but much like BetterSlack, the kind folks at Slack desired I change it, and I complied), and because it seemed like a silly enough idea that it could work.
My old character on Threshold is still there, must be more than 20 years old now. I still log in from time to time to see what has changed.
The level of in-character roleplaying I saw was so convincing and thorough (and intimidating), like when someone gave me a tour of the Fighters' Guild (iirc), that I thought I was on an on-rails scripted experience. They would take me into a room, and the regulars who were hanging out would exchange some banter with my tour guide. Was way too impressive to not be scripted.
So I made some snarky in-character comments to amuse myself since I was, after all, just listening to a script. And then I felt like a goof once everyone responded to me, clearly unscripted.
It's pretty magical to experience a world where the roleplaying is that seamless.
I was late to the MUD scene, only hopping on during my high school and later years, from 2006 onwards. But there was one that a lot of friends from my school played. Shame it's been shut down, though I heard an old fork of it recently got put online, with active building community...Might have to go find it now.
I remember armageddon! I was a "god" there due to my work on a couple of other popular muds (Epic and SillyMUD), but was likely better known there for taking up the challenge of building a character there and seeing how fast I could kill everyone in alphabetic (and then reverse-alphabetic) order. the challenge became easy with two things: 1) you could set your "title" to anything you wanted, as long as you included y…