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Does anyone remember the MUD [1] days ? It was a terminal text based D&D where you could connect to a server and create a character and play with other people.
by mderazon 9y ago
Does anyone remember the MUD [1] days ?
It was a terminal text based D&D where you could connect to a server and create a character and play with other people. Every mud service was a completely different world you could explore and had different characters.
You would team up with people and go slay monsters to gain experience and level up or just hang out and do stupid stuff.
You could use a dedicated mud clients like zMud [2] that added some nice key mapping for going north/south/up/down etc. All interaction was text based in CLI.
I was a teenager at that time, late nineties. I spent so many hours playing on a mud called "Merging of Fates" [3] [4] meeting great people day after day. They had occasional meetups in real life, but I didn't grow up in the US so I didn't attend. I think mud was the major factor for improving my English vocabulary as a kid.
I miss those times.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
2: http://www.zuggsoft.com/page.php?file=zmud/zmudinfo.htm http://www.zuggsoft.com/page.php?file=zmud/zmudinfo.htm
3: http://www.mudconnect.com/mud-bin/adv_search.cgi?Mode=MUD&mud=A+Merging+of+Fates http://www.mudconnect.com/mud-bin/adv_search.cgi?Mode=MUD&mu...
4: http://www.mudstats.com/World/AMergingofFates http://www.mudstats.com/World/AMergingofFates
- erikb 9y agoI think there's also a passionate little group of followers in a few reddits. Don't remember where, though. Maybe just try /r/MUD etc and you can find it.
- claudius 9y agoJust moved the MUD I used to play in around 2007 to "my" server because the old one was crashed. Absolutely tiny playerbase, but the content is still there :)
- davedx 9y agoYes! :) I played Wheel of Time MUD for years. It was great fun. I've not played a video game since that managed to capture the atmosphere, danger and risk in the PlayerKilling system there. WoW and other MMO's never really came close. I heard DaoC was pretty good but was still busy MUDding when that was popular. Coincidentally I just started a sideproject making a browser based rogue-like game... with online multiplayer! Don't know if it's been done before but it's a fun little project...
- dbingham 9y agoYep. I used to be an avid MUME (http://mume.org/ http://mume.org/) player with a big group of friends. I learned to code by creating a clone called MEM :D . Mume's still around. I've been indulging in a little memory lane playing lately.
- brlewis 9y agoMy 11yo plays Minecraft and one of her activities is roleplay, which is 90% text based since graphical character actions are so limited. I think there's a potential for a resurgence of things like MUDs. I also have a 17yo who's into writing, and I plan on working with her to put together some interactive fiction that resembles MUDs.
- Jemaclus 9y agoYep, yep. I've been building a MUD from scratch in Go for the last few months. Super fun project, and the nostalgia is overwhelming. Love it.