MUDs & Text Games
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https://nexustk.com/index.html
Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds is a classic anime-themed MMORPG with roots in the MUD tradition, offering an online fantasy world with quests, community events, and role-playing. One of the earliest graphical online RPGs, it blends Eastern art and storytelling with persistent multiplayer gameplay and a free trial to draw in newcomers.
https://aocmud.com/
Age of Chaos is a long-running text-based MUD inspired by Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time universe, featuring 22,000+ rooms, 14 character classes, 8 races, and a rich PvP and PvE system that has been active since 1997. Players can dive into clan wars, custom crafting, ancient race progression, and a massive labyrinth, all accessible via a custom client or any standard MUD client.
http://df.lth.se/~mol/if.html
Magnus has built a personal hub dedicated to interactive fiction, covering its literary merits, his own four published text adventure games, and resources for aspiring IF authors including Inform and TADS. The site also features criticism and analysis of notable IF works like Andrew Plotkin's 'So Far' and 'Dreamhold,' making it a thoughtful companion for both players and creators.
http://textfire.de/
Textfire.de is a German-language magazine and resource hub dedicated to text adventure games, encouraging enthusiasts to write and share their own interactive fiction. It features articles for authors, programming examples, reviews of existing works, and even hosts a competitive Grand Prix tournament for text adventure creators.
https://wiki.adrift.co/Main_Page
The official wiki manual for ADRIFT 5, a toolkit for creating interactive fiction and text adventure games, covering everything from beginner setup to advanced scripting. Organized into a user guide, tutorials, and a detailed reference manual, it serves as the comprehensive documentation hub for anyone writing or playing ADRIFT-powered text adventures.
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.
http://anguish.org/intro.php?id=topmud_db
Ancient Anguish is a free medieval fantasy MUD founded in 1992, featuring two massive continents with over 12,000 rooms, hundreds of explorable areas, and a rich variety of classes and guilds. The site serves as a comprehensive portal with lore, gameplay guides, player rankings, discussion boards, and even a Wizard mentoring program for players who want to help code new content.
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.
http://elysium-rpg.com/
Elysium is an original online RPG and MUD where players can build empires, join guilds and Orders, sail the seas, and master unique skills like Demonology and Herbalism. Created by Mark O'Mahoney and Rhys Catlow, this long-running text-based world offers deep roleplay and a player-maintained wiki for community lore.
https://cybersphere.net/
The Cybersphere Wiki is the official player reference for CyberSphere, a cyberpunk-themed Role-Playing MOO set in a dystopian future city called New Carthage, complete with wastelands, megacorporations, and a matrix network. Visitors will find detailed guides on character creation, in-game mechanics, factions, gangs, skills, and everything needed to navigate this text-based online world.