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A MUD (Multi-User Dungeon, a text-based game) accessed via Telnet.

coming later

See also:

• MCCP — Mud Client Compression Protocol

• Telnet

Games ∞

• /tag/mud-games
• http://www.mudconnect.com/
• https://eotl.borkweb.com/view/Main_Page

• Open Source MUDs

Clients ∞

See also Telnet and /tag/telnet+software

• /tag/mud-clients
• MUD client
• https://mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/resources.cgi

• http://www.gmagames.com/vipmud.shtml

  • Windows, specific to the visually impaired, payware and trialware.
  • I do not know what ways it’s limited when it’s not bought.

• http://mushclient.com/

  • I tried it a little, but it’s so damned Windows-y that it’s annoying.

• Theoretically, silkscreen could be adapted into a MUD client..

Less interesting clients ∞

• Bermud

  • wxRuby, Ruby scripting?
  • Hasn’t released any files. The author hasn’t responded to my two emails.

• KMC

  • Perl scripting

• Lyntin

  • Python scripting

• KMUD

  • checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= 1.42 and < 2.0) (libraries) not found. Please check your installation
  • 2006-04-23 or earlier — Qt is installed. This is probably a simple symlink or configuration issue.

• ymusk – Yenz’s Mush Klient

  • Perl scripting

• amcl

  • GNOME, Python scripting.
  • Their website is hard to read.

• MUDix

  • console or GTK+2.0, no scripting?
  • Good-looking, but simple. “Scripting” is easy but doesn’t appear to be very powerful. I’m probably wrong though.
• Ondrej Bilka <eirik at atlas.cz> made an unreleased and incomplete “nanofugue” in Ruby.
• rmud

[ 1 ]

Abandoned

• Papaya [ 2 ]

  • GTK+ 2.0 / GNOME-2
  • Cross-platform. Unsure of the scripting functionality.
  • Abandoned – As of 2025-04-07 last updated 2003-01-14

• was powwow

  • Nondescript home page: No features listed, no screenshots. Software is from 2002.

• was mcl

  • MUD Client for Unix
  • Python, Perl
  • Development has stopped.
  • dirt was a fork, but it too has been quiet. Abandoned – As of 2025-04-07 last updated 2013-03-07.

• SMM++

  • Tcl scripting?
  • Cross-platform. No real home page.
  • Abandoned – As of 2025-04-07 last updated 2013-06-03.

• tkMOO-light

  • tK scripting?
  • Abandoned – As of 2025-04-07 hasn’t been updated since 2002-02-10.

• RMC [ 3 ]

  • Ron’s MUD Client
  • Appears to be very young.
  • Abandoned – As of 2025-04-07 last updated 2000-09-20

Untested clients ∞

• TinyFugue – Rebirth

• TinTin++ [ 4 ]

  • Website is hard to read.

Abandoned:

• TinyFugue [ 5 ]

  • Abandoned: As of 2025-04-07, last updated 2007-01-14.

• yTin [ 6 ]

  • 2025-04-07 – Apparently abandoned

• ggmud [ 7 ]

  • 2017-11-18 — Last updated 2017-01-19, but the author doesn’t seem actually active. A young project.
  • GTK+

Terminals and their software which could be used as clients ∞

These items support “triggers”: Responses to text.

• https://iterm2.com/

• Others which I forget..

Server software ∞

• /tag/mud-servers

  • Softcode

• Momoko

  • Modular extensible multiuser environment (FTP, IRC, Telnet, etc)

Ruby MUD server software ∞

(Ruby)

• /tag/ruby-software+mud-server-software

• TeensyMud

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20190814052933/http://teensymud.kicks-ass.org:80/wiki/show/
  • https://sourcery.dyndns.org/wiki.cgi?TeensyMud
  • A very small/simple MUD server. Not meant to be serious. Nowhere near started.
  • comical announcement [ 8 ]

• chucho mud

  • Too young to be useful.
  • blog posts on this topic
  • wiki docs

• mues – The Multi-User Environment Server.

  • A multi-threaded, event-driven internet game environment server.

• Faeriemud

  • A multi-user online role-playing game, one with a high degree of immersiveness and believability, depth of character, and, above all, an emphasis on story.
  • Too young to be useful.

• NUDE is Networked User Dungeon Environment

  • A bit like a MUD.

See also:

• MUD Game Programming – (2003 book), by Ron Penton

  • ISBN 1592000908

Footnotes

1. was https://web.archive.org/web/20140515202625/https://rubyforge.org/projects/rmud/[ ↩ ]
2. was http://www.gtk-papaya.org/ [ ↩ ]
3. was RMC [ ↩ ]
4. was https://web.archive.org/web/20060424074627/http://www.scandum.com/tintin/[ ↩ ]
5. was https://web.archive.org/web/20070113232228/http://tf.tcp.com/~hawkeye/tf/[ ↩ ]
6. was https://web.archive.org/web/20100823050454/http://lightning.prohosting.com:80/~xine/ytin/[ ↩ ]
7. was https://gavelytics.com/ggmud/
   was http://www.ggsoft.org/ggmud/
   was http://ggmud.sourceforge.net/ [ ↩ ]
8. was http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/ac90dd4fd79960b/1d46486fa281ca84 [ ↩ ]