MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
http://mud2.com/CMS/index.php
The official home of MUD2, the direct descendant of the original Multi-User Dungeon designed by Richard Bartle in the late 1970s, widely considered the grandfather of all MMORPGs. Maintained by Viktor T. Toth, the site offers access to the live text-based game, help resources, and community features for players who still love classic text adventures.
https://www.adrift.co/links
ADRIFT is a dedicated hub for the Interactive Fiction authoring tool of the same name, offering a curated links page pointing to wikis, databases, competitions, and community forums across the IF world. Visitors can discover resources like IFDB, intfiction.org, and the annual Interactive Fiction Competition, making it a useful gateway for both ADRIFT users and the broader text adventure community.
https://mail.dworkin.nl/pipermail/mud-dev-archive
A comprehensive mailing list archive for mud-dev, a long-running discussion community dedicated to MUD and online game development, spanning from 1996 through 2006. Developers and designers of text-based and early online games exchanged technical and design ideas here, making this archive a rich historical record of MUD development discourse.
https://deathlogs.com/
Deathlogs.com is a community hub for MUD players that archives combat logs, death records, kill statistics, and highscores across dozens of text-based online RPGs including Reinos de Leyenda, Final Realms, and Ancient Kingdoms. With tens of thousands of logs spanning multiple games in both English and Spanish, it serves as an invaluable historical record and competitive tracker for the MUD gaming community.
https://lisdude.com/moo/macmoo-readme.html
Hosted on John C. Daub's personal site, this page preserves historical documentation about MacMOO Server, a Mac OS implementation of the MOO text-based virtual world platform from the mid-1990s. It includes detailed setup instructions and quirks from original authors Jens Alfke and Allan Crain, making it a valuable artifact for anyone interested in the early history of MUDs and MOOs.
http://plover.net/~pscion/inform7.html
Ron Newcomb's in-depth technical guide to Inform 7, the natural-language programming language used to create interactive fiction, written specifically for experienced programmers coming from conventional languages. Covering everything from types and rulebooks to grammar quirks and low-level hacking, it serves as a comprehensive bridge between traditional coding concepts and I7's unique paradigm.
http://web.garoumush.org/
GarouMUSH is one of the oldest World of Darkness MUSHes still in existence, running since 1993 and focused on cooperative storytelling set in the Werewolf: The Apocalypse universe. Visitors can connect via telnet or a MUSH client to join an original roleplay game featuring Garou werewolves, vampires, and mages from the White Wolf Storyteller game line.
https://skotos.net/articles/show-column.phtml%3Fcolname=playing.html
Skotos Tech was a pioneering online game company that published articles and columns about text-based and browser multiplayer games. The site hosted a collection of game design writings and hosted several MUD and online RPG titles in the early 2000s.
http://tads.org/
TADS (Text Adventure Development System) is the official home of a free, professional-grade authoring toolkit for creating interactive fiction, maintained by Michael J. Roberts. The site offers downloads, comprehensive manuals, code examples, and community links for both TADS 2 and TADS 3, making it an essential hub for serious IF developers.
https://realmsofdespair.com/
Realms of Despair is the original SMAUG MUD, a free medieval fantasy text game boasting over 250 unique areas, a wide variety of races and classes, and a rich web of guilds, clans, and nation-based roleplay organizations. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering a web client, documentation on commands and classes, area maps, community resources, and a new player guide.