I'm still living with the former admin of Puzzlebox, an aggressively weird sci-fi social/RP MUCK. Ending up on there definitely shaped my life.
Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play
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#82I loved playing on MUDs in the 90s. My friend and I were wizards on one that was called Shadow something-or-another. It was awesome to be able to script new adventures and play online with friends as a kid in middle school and high school.
Shadows of the mind?
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#83Saw no mentions here of “Talkers”, the very early 90s precursor to Discord or Slack.
The early talkers were similar to MUDs with most of the complex game machinery stripped away, leaving just the communication level commands – hence the name "talker".
https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A1010106
Early Talkers included Cheeseplant’s House, Elsewhere, Surfers (ewtoo), Foothills, Tower, Resort. World, etc.
Some are still online, here: http://list.ewtoo.org/
I just tried one — login worked, last logged in April 2003. That means that site has been online ~30 years.
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#84Another MUD alumni here.
Solace MUD (Dragonlance-based MUD), first a player, back in school times, and then a core developer, in uni/grad. Maintaining a messy 100k-lines C codebase without proper skills for it was a challenge on its own and taught me quite a lot. Good times...
(still have the codebase lying around somewhere and the folks on the forums are still asking to revive it from time to time...)
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#85I was introduced to MUDs in 1998 by a friend who was super into them. I wasn’t big on the role playing/fantasy genre, but I learned C in Middle School do I could code areas and get admin/Wizard access.
Dimensions MUD thought me to code and build my own toys.
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#86Back in the early 90s MUDs were very popular among Chinese universities and many were developed at the time. I was too young at the time so didn't get the chance to play any of them.
For whoever played MUD long enough (say a couple of years), what do you think modern MMORPG is missing from MUD and is implementable? By saying modern MMORPG I'm refering to any MMORPG starting from Ultima Online.
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#87Old-school MUDs are alright, but I'd love to see a modern reinterpretation of them that rethinks the interfaces and offers more democratized tools. For instance, I'd love rooms that could be populated with sounds, images, environmental effects, day/night cycles, and text effects. This would be purely ornamental and could be done in a way to support backward compatibility with text-only views, as I'd want to keep this…
I only just learned that MUDs exist from this article, but I've wanted to create some kind of collaborative RPG thing since forever.
I'd love to collaborate on something if you're interested
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#88MUDs may be history to most people, but at Iron Realms we still have five commercial MUDs running live with dedicated paid staff on each constantly working to improve the gameplay and enlarge the already massive worlds. Honestly, it's pretty surprising to me, as when I launched our first one - Achaea - in 1997 right around when Ultima Online launched, I gave us five years. https://ironrealms.com
Since you run the place, I'll state here that it would be nice if I could look at your web site and decide if I'm interested before being hit with a pop-up window asking me to sign up for a newsletter. How do I know if I want your newsletter, if I haven't figured out what your product is? Window closed. Sale lost.
This site is by no means unique in this practice.
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#89Old-school MUDs are alright, but I'd love to see a modern reinterpretation of them that rethinks the interfaces and offers more democratized tools. For instance, I'd love rooms that could be populated with sounds, images, environmental effects, day/night cycles, and text effects. This would be purely ornamental and could be done in a way to support backward compatibility with text-only views, as I'd want to keep this…
I only just learned that MUDs exist from this article, but I've wanted to create some kind of collaborative RPG thing since forever. I'd love to collaborate on something if you're interested
I always wanted to make a graphical mud type engine where users could upload their own character models and the focus would be on role play instead of combat. I thinking with three.js it’s a real possibility to realize.
Re: Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play
#90Old-school MUDs are alright, but I'd love to see a modern reinterpretation of them that rethinks the interfaces and offers more democratized tools. For instance, I'd love rooms that could be populated with sounds, images, environmental effects, day/night cycles, and text effects. This would be purely ornamental and could be done in a way to support backward compatibility with text-only views, as I'd want to keep this…
This is Minecraft with MCMMO