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Welcome to Armageddon: On MUDs (2017)
- jcrben 8y agoI've been the crime boss of Armageddon multiple times since I started playing in high-school around 2005. Most recently created a character in 2016 after a 5-year break. Back to a break, prolly for longer this time. Duties include shaking down noble houses, bribing law enfocement, and executing assassination contracts.
- axilmar 8y agoIt's so amazing that MUDs can create such a magical atmosphere to be in! such an atmosphere that it has never been captured by MMORPGs ever!!! I have never played a MUD game but it seems terrifyingly addictive...
- claudius 8y agoShameless plug: nightfall.org is up and running fairly stable (again) and has a quite nice web client at https://nightfall.org/webclient.htm https://nightfall.org/webclient.htm
- rabbitonrails 8y agoAnyone 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.
- j-walker 8y agoHave a link? Searching "Arm RPG" brings up a lot of non-relevant stuff.
- jerrysievert 8y agotelnet ginka.armageddon.org 4050 http://armageddon.org http://armageddon.org
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoI read that as a familiar shorthand for 'Armageddon'[1] 1: http://armageddon.org/ http://armageddon.org/
- stormcode 8y agoShameless Plug: Sindome also has an excellent web client and has been online 21 years. Https://www.sindome.org
- lylecubed 8y agoMy 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.
- mikemuds 8y agoWhat was your character name there? I was Monkey and I played around 94-96. Did you ever play Bluemage or ExtremeMUD?
- lylecubed 8y agoBlur. I played from 97-04. I never played Bluemage or ExtremeMUD. The only other muds I played were a bunch of Star Wars permadeath muds and a few wheel of time ones.
- jerrysievert 8y agoI 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 your name somewhere in the title. I named my character "Delver", as in "Foo the Delver in Spells" (the first level mage title) 2) I found a remote area that increased mana production, camped there, and summon/fireball'd everyone very quickly good memories. as an aside, there's a copy of SillyMUD running at legitimatesounding.com 4000 for those feeling nostalgic.
- dwags 8y agoI miss Medievia!
- bencollier49 8y agoMy 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.
- always_good 8y agoI played Threshold too. I must've been 13. 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.
- tzakrajs 8y agoAlterAeon is still going! http://alteraeon.org/ http://alteraeon.org/
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- Scarblac 8y agoLike in EVE Online, There is so much history in MUDs. Thousands of people spent years in them, living adventures, insane stuff happened. And here is a thread about MUDs and hardly any two people mention the same one. I played Nuclear War, and Genocide for a bit. 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.
- DanHulton 8y agoI'll join in the shameless plugs - I tried to kind of mix classic MUD styles with classic BBS Door games like Legend of the Red Dragon and integrate it with the Slack client: https://www.chatandslash.com/ https://www.chatandslash.com/ 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.
- dorchadas 8y agoI 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.
- sianns 8y agoBatmud. Started years before armageddon. Might bigger. Michael better. Still going strong.
- genericone 8y agoDragonSwords, the mud to play twenty years ago from hyperterminal at a public library.
- xedrac 8y agoThere were so many MUDs back in the 90s. I was an avid ShadowLands player myself. My interest in programming grew tremendously when I downloaded the source for DikuMUD and CircleMUD and started tweaking things. It didn't take long to turn into an outright passion.