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https://www.legendsofthejedi.com/ https://www.legendsofthejedi.com/ It originated (more than 20 years ago) as a fork of SWReality, which is itself a fork of SM
by jonmarkgo 2y ago
https://www.legendsofthejedi.com/ https://www.legendsofthejedi.com/
It originated (more than 20 years ago) as a fork of SWReality, which is itself a fork of SMAUG, which comes from DIKU, and so on and so on.
We (myself and a lot of other awesome volunteer coders over the years) have made some pretty major modifications to the codebase. It all runs on PostgreSQL now (instead of flat text files with a custom parser), it has a built-in Lua scripting interpreter for extensions and in-game interactions, it has deep integrations to our Discord community, it has sidecar web services, and much much more...
- _jackdk_ 2y agoThat's so cool. Have you written about the MUD's history and technical evolution anywhere? If not, would you be interested in collaborating on an article like that?
- jonmarkgo 2y agoHuffPo wrote a piece about us like a decade ago, and I've been meaning to write more about the technical evolution of the game..just haven't gotten around to it. Certainly interested in collaborating on something
- FajriFadli 2y agoThis is awesome, thanks for sharing! I used to play lots of MUDs and also the browser-based MMORPG life sim Star Wars Combine, so I don't know how I missed this back then. By the way, you have broken link on the `Learn More About the Economy` link in the home page. Should just have it redirect to `/crafting-the-galaxy`
- jonmarkgo 2y agoThanks! We'll fix that broken link. Fwiw I also used to play SW Combine too. I think their irc server was where I first learned about MUDs. Kind of funny how many people from LotJMUD or SWC I've met in the real world who work in tech now
- johnbellone 2y agoHa, blast from the past - I have bunch of code that is in mainline SMAUG.