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The original MUD game was closed down in late 1987, [27] reportedly under pressure from CompuServe, to whom Richard Bartle had licensed the game. This left MIST , a derivative of MUD1 with similar gameplay, as the only remaining MUD running on the University of Essex network, becoming one of the first of its kind to attain broad popularity.
The MUD's title; if it has had more than one title, the most recent title. Disambiguation is included only when MUDs in this list have the same title. Founded The date the MUD was founded or first made publicly accessible. Closed The date the MUD ceased to be publicly accessible. A blank entry indicates the MUD continues to operate. Business model
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This category is intended to include specifically games which are or have been significantly referred to as "graphical MUDs", or simply as MUDs while clearly having graphics, including some (but certainly not all) MMORPGs — generally games released in earlier years when the term "graphical MUD" had more currency.
While the first MUDs were clearly focused on the game, things changed in 1989 when Jim Aspnes released TinyMUD. TinyMUD allowed users to focus on building and socialisation, rather than game playing. [9] It did not take long until TinyMUD had emerged as the "most popular MUD on the internet", [10] and a subculture of furry fans emerged within ...
GemStone IV, Simutronics' flagship product, a text-based multiplayer fantasy game, which has seen over one million users over the years. It is the longest-lived commercial MUD game, followed by Avalon: The Legend Lives. [3] [4] DragonRealms, a 1996 MUD set in GemStone 's Elanthia world, with popularity on online services AOL, Compuserve, and ...
MUD2 is the successor of MUD1, Richard Bartle's pioneering Multi-User Dungeon. MUD2 is not a sequel to MUD1, instead being a heavily updated version of MUD1 (MUD1 is officially version 3 of the codebase, MUD2 is version 4) - with the engine being implemented in C, featuring significantly more content than MUD1, and uses a flexible object-oriented scripting language (MUDDLE) to define content ...
Dragon's Gate was an interactive, real time, text-based multi user online fantasy role-playing game, sometimes referred to as a MUD. It was one of the longest running pay-for-play online games in the world, it opened to the public in the spring of 1990 on GEnie. [1] In 1996 the game was moved to AOL. [2]