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You know what's interesting here, nobody mentioning MajorMUD. That was (and somewhat still is) the kinda-not-a-door-game door game serving as the engine of a lo
by fapjacks 11y ago
You know what's interesting here, nobody mentioning MajorMUD. That was (and somewhat still is) the kinda-not-a-door-game door game serving as the engine of a lot of BBS use. Unfortunately, MetroBBS (the company that owns the IP) is still holding out for some kind of MMO or movie deal or something and the pricing for this game is silly. Also, being from the KC area, I have it on very good authority that some of the source code for MM was lost during an office move. And this is why (in addition to having lost their main programmer) there haven't been substantial updates in years.
- logfromblammo 11y agoI recall playing a custom derivative of DikuMUD in the 90s. There was this technology called telnet that allowed me to play it from any Internet-connected computer, rather than dialing up a BBS. The major keystone codebases, as I recall, were AberMUD, LPMUD, DikuMUD, MUSH, or MOO. If the company is holding out for some kind of licensing deal, someone might want to remind them that their snowflake was probably a whole lot more precious before it melted.
- fapjacks 11y agoYou might be excited to learn that MUME (multi-users in middle earth) has been running for almost 25 years now [0]. I have been playing off and on for twenty years. I met my wife through that game. PvP is legendary, and specifically used as a model by early graphical MMOs. [0] http://mume.org http://mume.org
- isaacforce 11y agoWriting Telemate scripts to automatically play MajorMUD for me while I was AFK is how I got started with programming! I got to the point where I was distributing my scripts via a forum on a board I played on, and I even got contributions back from a couple people. Definitely a lot of fond memories there.