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As someone that never touched a MUD (but plenty of ASCII roguelikes), I see that MUD clients are recommended [1] to be used. Any other clients I should be looking at, for this particular MUD but also others? Are they generic enough to be used with multiple games? [1] https://t2tmud.org/clients.php
As someone that never touched a MUD (but plenty of ASCII roguelikes), I see that MUD clients are recommended [1] to be used. Any other clients I should be looking at, for this particular MUD but also others? Are they generic enough to be used with multiple games? [1] https://t2tmud.org/clients.php
also tintin https://tintin.mudhalla.net/ (which is my personal recommendation)
As someone that never touched a MUD (but plenty of ASCII roguelikes), I see that MUD clients are recommended [1] to be used. Any other clients I should be looking at, for this particular MUD but also others? Are they generic enough to be used with multiple games? [1] https://t2tmud.org/clients.php
I played Ancient Anguish way back in the day. I think it is still up! https://anguish.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Anguish
Oh wow! Didn’t expect to see this piece of my childhood on the front page! I used to spend hours on telnet playing this game with my friend. What a fun blast to the past!
Pretty amazing that this is still around. I used to be active on Elendor MUSH, but as far as I know it's been dead for years - I poke my head in once every year or two and there are always 0 players online.
Sucks when MUD servers eventually shutdown and all of it is lost forever. I’ve found a few on github though and have been archiving as many as I can find.
In spanish there are some very old muds: - Balzhur: https://balzhur.org/ is have been running from january 2000 - Medina: medinamud.top sometimes was offline but it have been running from 1995
Ended up befriending a blind guy from Venezuela and wondering if most people still playing MUDs might be blind.
I logged on a few weeks ago and noticed he still plays, but I forgot the commands to do anything so I never left him a message.
There's also:
- rlmud.org 23 https://www.reinosdeleyenda.es/ -- Still relatively popular for a MUD in Spanish
- mud.simauria.org 23 http://www.simauria.org/ -- This game was cute and quaint 5 years ago but now you can't get past the email verification anymore. I've messaged the admin email for this site a few times over the years asking if I can archive the server code but I don't think anyone ever receives it
- cyberlife.es 7777 https://www.cyberlife.es/ -- Logged into this just a few weeks ago to test charset support on my hobby mud client. It's a real life Madrid-like world mostly geared towards roleplaying I think (no combat). When I logged in as Sindulfo, someone said my name sounded like a butler and if there also existed a Condulfo. Was kinda funny to chat with them.
Sucks to know the source code for these servers will all get lost forever.
I owe my career in programming to a MUD. That's really where I learned to code (mainly by staring at and trying to debug tonnes of really bad code other clueless newbies like myself had written). That it turn, got me a spot as a sort of hang-around at a local ISP/consultancy shop whose staff intersected a lot with the people running the MUD. They eventually decided to hire me when a suitable contract showed up. All i…
I've often thought about implementing "Claude plays" some open source mud. Seems like a much more pure form of experiment since it's all text.
I wonder what it would be like to write one from scratch in 2025. Maybe I have a new project.
Wasted so many of my tween, teen, and 20s years here. ... And a bit of my 30s. Still play now and then. Got a friend into it too. Great way to game in a terminal window at work. Check out KBtin MUD client!
It's never a waste to play terminal games/nethack during class or work! Bonus points if you pass the class or get paid/don't get fired!
Anyone out there still playing MUDs? Any good ones to recommend?
Been a while since I did but sometimes I hop on one I played back in the day, like Ishar or Materia Magica, to scratch a certain itch. Looks like a good number of the old ones are still going.