Avalon opened in 1989 which must make it one of the oldest MUDs still in operation. What’s even more remarkable is that it’s a commercial game with a subscription model that remains successful in an age of graphical MMORPGs and the subscription behemoth that is World of Warcraft. I’ve played Avalon before, and indeed it… [more]

Adventures Unlimited has been around since 1998 and is based on the popular ROM 2.4 codebase. According to the website it looks like it offers typical hack and slash gameplay along with some role play features, such as a character description and introduction system, and a clan based player killing system. It doesn’t seem like… [more]

I get annoyed when I read this kind of thing about how wonderful free to play is and how it’s the future of online multiplayer gaming. Yeah so I used to run a free to play commercial game, but more on that in another post maybe. The Massively article talks about how Turbine successfully integrated… [more]

I’ve recently left the staff of Maiden Desmodus and am no longer involved with the game in any way. I’ve also sold my share in The Binary Forge Limited to my former business partner Wade Gustafson and he is now in charge of running the game and any future development. I was really sad to… [more]

After deciding to finally level a character to 80 in World of Warcraft (I’ve had an account that I’ve played off and on for a few years) I’ve been experiencing the pain of running Wrath of the Lich King instances using the dungeon finder. As great as the instances themselves are, the whole experience is… [more]

I haven’t blogged anything for a while so I thought it would be fun to play some new MUDs and post reviews of them here. So if anyone wants me to review their MUD please let me know! I run a MUD of my own so obviously I can’t claim to be completely free from… [more]

A few minor fixes in this release. Download it here. Version 0.92 Released on 2nd March 2010. Fixed a bug with the hide_password parameter Fixed a bug with font selection Fixed a bug with handling telnet ECHO FMud is a simple web based Flash mud client. A running demo, feature list and installation instructions are… [more]

I played a little Allods Online during the closed beta and was impressed with what I saw. It felt polished for a free to play game, and there was just the right balance of WoW clone and original features to give it a broad appeal. This week the cash shop opened, and boy are the… [more]

We recently launched Maiden Desmodus on Kongregate and part of converting the client for their site involved integrating their user authentication with our own account system. This was a fairly simple process, but I’ll outline the steps I took here in case it proves useful to anyone else. When users connect to Maiden Desmodus for… [more]

We’ve started on the design for the next game and as it’s going to use a completely custom client I’ve been looking around at more general socket servers for the backend. I had toyed with the idea of using our existing engine built on top of Nakedmud, but came to the conclusion that we need… [more]