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A multi-user dungeon (MUD, / m ĘŚ d /), also known as a multi-user dimension or multi-user domain, [1] [2] is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, usually text-based or storyboarded. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games , hack and slash , player versus player , interactive fiction , and online chat .
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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Between 1984 and 1987, MUD was hosted on the DEC-20 of Dundee College of Technology [13] which was one of the few institutions to allow outside access. In 1984, Compunet , a UK-based network primarily for Commodore 64 users, licensed MUD1 and ran it from late 1984 until 1987, when CompuNet abandoned the DEC-10 platform they were using.
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 ...
Generally, a MUD client is a very basic telnet client that lacks VT100 terminal emulation and the capability to perform telnet negotiations. On the other hand, MUD clients are enhanced with various features designed to make the MUD telnet interface more accessible to users, and enhance the gameplay of MUDs, [ 1 ] with features such as syntax ...
LPMud, abbreviated LP, is a family of multi-user dungeon (MUD) server software. Its first instance, the original LPMud game driver, was developed in 1989 by Lars Pensjö (the LP in LPMud). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] LPMud was innovative in its separation of the MUD infrastructure into a virtual machine (termed the driver ) and a development framework ...