It’s been one month since I put together MudGamers.com so I thought it would be a good time to reflect on how the site has developed and what I have learned from the exercise so far. Looking at the numbers, the site has 114 registered members and 31 listed games, of which 7 are using… [more]

In my last post I made the case for a new type of mud portal site that would be more accessible to players who may be new to mudding. In one of those “I’ll do it just to see if I can” type moments I decided to put together MudGamers. The two main areas I… [more]

I have been thinking lately that one thing the mud community lacks is a good portal site that is aimed at promoting muds to new players. I posted some thoughts in this thread but nobody on that site seemed to care enough to comment so I thought I would expand my ideas a little more… [more]

Getting accused of being a thief is never nice, but what really irritates me is how willing some people are to fire off accusations in a public forum without taking any steps to verify their information. Someone has looked at the login sequence for Maiden Desmodus and the posts of sample mud output on the… [more]

I’ve been rather quiet lately as I’ve been heavily involved in coding for a new online text game (MUD). The code is based on NakedMud by Geoff Hollis and has been a lot of fun to work with. It’s a C core extended in Python and fortunately I’ve been able to do most of the… [more]