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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 application, or with one of the many 'MUD clients' which are available (mostly free of charge), online.

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Hosting (25) LP (110) MOOs (86) MUCKs (116) MUSH (198) Mailing Lists (3) MajorMud (53) Mordor (8)

Player Pages (13) Protocols (28) Resources (7) Roleplaying (210) Server Software (62) Talkers (72) TinyMUD (1) Web Rings (17)

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Links:

Journal of Virtual Environments Academic journal devoted to MUDs and their uses. Formerly known as the Journal of MUD Research. www.brandeis.edu/pubs/jove

Basic Information about MUDs and MUDding FAQ about MUDs and MUDding. www.lysator.liu.se/mud/faq/faq1.html

Games/mud FAQ Index Listing of online FAQ for MUD's. www.faqs.org/faqs/games/mud-faq

XYZZYnews: Dungeons, Dragons, Shovels, and Telepathy A brief look at MUD design, by Miron Schmidt. www.xyzzynews.com/xyzzy.13e.html

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. www.mud.co.uk

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. www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm

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. www.cybergeography.org/atlas/muds_vw.html

About.com: Multi-User Dungeons Article featuring background information and resources. internetgames.about.com/cs/mudmush

MUDdy Waters Detailed information about the MUDding community. Features reviews, resources and message boards. www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/text_games

Vae Victus Contains news, logs, history, and a message board. clan_vaevictus.tripod.com/news.html

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. esplanaden.lysator.liu.se/svmud/pargman

DikuMUD Family Tree Listing of MUD codebases by heirachy for Diku and all code bases. www.game.org/heirarchy.html

Open Site An article with an explanation of what MUDs are, an overview of their history, and a list of variants. open-site.org/Games/Online/MUDs

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