A collection of resources for those interested in coding, building, and/or playing MUDs/MUSHes/MOOs, etc.
Playing
Guides
- What is a MUD?
- Introduction to MUD styles and player types
- Beginner’s guide to roleplaying
- Immersive Roleplay 101
- Glossary
Lists & Stats
Find a game to play:
- AresCentral Games Directory
- IPTIA BBS/MUD Server List
- Evennia Game Index
- Grapevine (good for beginners)
- MOOList
- MudBytes
- MUDhalla Mud List & MSSP Crawler
- MudListings
- GameScry
- MUDseek
MUDStats(currently unavailable)- MudVerse
- Mustard MU* Directory
- The MUD Connector
- Top MUD Sites (archive)
MUD Clients
Downloadable:
Browser-based:
Mobile apps:
Available on GitHub:
- BeipMU
- BlightMUD – inspired by TinyFugue
- Blightspell (spellchecker for BlightMUD)
- Mukluk
Building & Marketing
Tools & Resources
- Vineyard – Request free hosting
- The Builder Academy – Build your own world
- Bartle’s taxonomy of player types – Balance your playerbase
- Bartle’s MUD Writings Archive – Collection of academic and popular articles
- Imaginary Realities Archive (Tharsis Gate) – Thought leadership about MUDs, published between 1998-2001
- Grim Wheel’s Imaginary Realities Archive – Additional resources and context about Imaginary Realities e-magazine
- Grim Wheel’s Buildcraft section – Impressive repository of articles and advice on MUD building
Andruid’s tips & advice:
- Marketing your game
- Writing room descriptions
- Improving help systems
- Rewarding players for reporting typos
Accessibility:
Coding
Codebases & Repositories
- AresMUSH (GitHub) – Ruby
- CircleMUD (Unofficial GitHub) – C
- CoffeeMUD (GitHub) – Java
- DikuMUD (GitHub) – C
- DikuMUD3 (GitHub) – C++
- Evennia (GitHub) – Python
- ExVenture (GitHub) – Elixir
- FluffOS (GitHub) – C++
- LambaMOO (GitHub) – C
- LDMud (GitHub) – C
- MUD1 (GitHub)
PennMUSH(currently unavailable)- RanvierMUD (GitHub) – Javascript
- SMAUG
- Stunt (GitHub) – C++, C
- tbaMUD (GitHub) – C
- TinyMUD
- TinyMUX (GitHub) – C++
- ToastStunt GitHub – C++
Areas
Open Source MUD Projects
A collection of games/projects that are open source or allow contributions from the community:
- ArchaicQuest – ArchaicQuest-II GitHub
- Arx, After the Reckoning – Arxcode GitHub
- AwakeMUD CE – AwakeMUD GitHub
Think something belongs on this page but isn’t here? Drop me a line at andruid@writing-games.com. Additions and corrections welcome!