Multi-User Dungeon

A Multi-User Dungeon , more commonly called MUD is a Video game lodged by a waiter on Internet. The players incarnate a character and see textual descriptions of rooms, objects or other characters in a virtual world. They can interact between-them and with the environment by typing orders which resemble the current language.

MUDs traditional implement a fantastic Monde populated mythological creatures such as Elfe S, Goblin S and others. As for the players, they incarnate knight S, Sorcière S and others. The goal of the play is to kill out of the monsters, to explore and carry out searches. Certains MUDs has an environment of Science-fiction. Others are used for distant education or virtual conferences.

Generally the MUD are free. They can however accept the gifts or sell virtual objects in the play. The majority of the MUD are in English. The most known bases (Circle, Diku) are Anglo-Saxon, and this language is obviously of rigor to satisfy a public Net surfer. It is thus very rare to meet a French MUD (or in any case, completely French).

History

The first MUD appeared in 1978, and gained in popularity with the the United States in the years 1980, thanks to the popularization of data processing. The Roguelike S were also popular at the time. In same time in Europe, the development of the MUD was centered on the university networks, particularly at the university of Essex. The interns and external were numerous to play there. In this context, the MUD were called “Multi-Undergrad Destroyer”.

The original MUD printed their inspiration from plays as a paper version like Donjons and Dragons and on computer Colossal Undermines Adventure. Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle is probably the authors of the first MUD. A version of this first MUD always turns to http://www.british-legends.com.

The first commercial MUD, appeared in 1985. SHADES was accessible in Great Britain via the system Prestel.

Scene MUD, always very active on Internet, is accessible via the standard telnet or of the more attractive MUDs customers.

Alternatives

With time several alternatives appeared:

TinyMUD,
LPMud,
MUCK,
MUSH,
MOO.

The generic term of all these alternatives is “MU*”.

MUDs graphs

A graphic MUD is a MUD which uses the Synthèse of image to represent parts of the Virtual world and its visitors. MUDs graphs require the remote loading of a special customer and graphs of the play. They are classified simple improvement of the graphical interface to the simulation of worlds in three dimensions with a visual representation of space and the personalization of the misadventures.

Once the power of the computers grew, and that connections to Internet became permanent, MMORPG S ( M assively M ultiplayer O nline R ole- P laying G hearts) came at the day. Contrary to their predecessors, the majority of MMORPGs are companies with commercial goal.

Examples of MUD

MultiMUD : One of the last French MUD, the history is held in a fantastic universe (elves, dwarves and orcs with go) but also of science fiction (Undulating, Asgards, etc). There is an good atmosphere among the players, and the play is in perpetual evolution; here the page of explanation.

To connect itself directly via telnet or a customer MUD, waiter: multimud.homeip.net and port 6022.

EnsiMUD : Perhaps oldest French mud: Exist since January 1994. Ensimud is a mud known as “hack & slash”, i.e. based on the evolution of a character via the combat and the accumulation of point of experiment. Fallen in the lapse of memory, the play still survives via a small community which concentrates on the realization of a new version.

To connect itself directly via telnet or a customer mud, waiter: ensimud.net and port 4500. The site of the play provides also explanations on the muds.

Simple: MUD

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