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An Atlas of Cyberspaces - MUDs and Virtual Worlds
An Atlas of Cyberspaces - MUDs and Virtual Worlds: An atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, WWW and other emerging Cyberspaces. (MUDs)
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/muds_vw.html |
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Journal of Virtual Environments
Journal of Virtual Environments: Academic journal devoted to MUDs and their uses. Formerly known as the Journal of MUD Research. (MUDs)
http://www.brandeis.edu/pubs/jove/ |
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Open Site
Open Site: An article with an explanation of what MUDs are, an overview of their history, and a list of variants. (MUDs)
http://open-site.org/Games/Online/MUDs/ |
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Richard A. Bartle: Players Who Suit MUDs
Richard A. Bartle: Players Who Suit MUDs: Discusses whether MUDs are games, pass times, sports or entertainments and suggests four kinds of player: achiever, explorer, socializer or killer. (MUDs)
http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm |
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Vae Victus
Vae Victus: Contains news, logs, history, and a message board. (MUDs)
http://clan_vaevictus.tripod.com/news.html |
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Basic Information about MUDs and MUDding
Basic Information about MUDs and MUDding: FAQ about MUDs and MUDding. (MUDs)
http://www.lysator.liu.se/mud/faq/faq1.html |
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XYZZYnews: Dungeons, Dragons, Shovels, and Telepathy
XYZZYnews: Dungeons, Dragons, Shovels, and Telepathy: A brief look at MUD design, by Miron Schmidt. (MUDs)
http://www.xyzzynews.com/xyzzy.13e.html |
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Games/mud FAQ Index
Games/mud FAQ Index: Listing of online FAQ for MUD's. (MUDs)
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/games/mud-faq/ |
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MUSE Ltd.
MUSE Ltd.: Purveyors of fine, online games since 1985; principal products are MUD2 and the MUDDLE programming language and development system, both available for commercial licensing. (MUDs)
http://www.mud.co.uk/ |
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The Center for Imaginary Environments
The Center for Imaginary Environments: Supports reality modeling technology and multi-user environments. Members are active in the development of mud software using the LPC and Java languages. (MUDs)
http://www.imaginary.com |
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MUDdy Waters
MUDdy Waters: Detailed information about the MUDding community. Features reviews, resources and message boards. (MUDs)
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/text_games |
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Code begets community
Code begets community: Information about Daniel Pargman's Ph.D. thesis on the social and technical aspects of managing a virtual community, a study of a Swedish MUD. Sample chapters in PDF format. (MUDs)
http://esplanaden.lysator.liu.se/svmud/pargman/ |
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About.com: Multi-User Dungeons
About.com: Multi-User Dungeons: Article featuring background information and resources. (MUDs)
http://internetgames.about.com/cs/mudmush/ |
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DikuMUD Family Tree
DikuMUD Family Tree: Listing of MUD codebases by heirachy for Diku and all code bases. (MUDs)
http://www.game.org/heirarchy.html |
Additional
Information: This category is for general information concerned with online games which are known as 'Muds' or 'MUDs' (including all the different types of server/codebase which exist - MUSH, Diku, LP, etc).
These games can be played via a telnet or java applica
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