MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
https://valheru.com/
Valheru MUD is a text-based online adventure game set in a classic fantasy world, offering players an extensive selection of races, classes, multi-classing, and thousands of quests including live events with AI-driven NPCs. The site serves as the official hub for the game, providing connection guides, lore, clan info, builder resources, and community features for its international playerbase spanning Denmark, the USA, and beyond.
https://friday-girl.neocities.org/
Friday-girl's personal site doubles as an archive of permadeath logs and funny moments from MUD2, the classic text-based multiplayer game. The collection of 'Stupid Deaths' makes it a quirky and niche resource for fans of old-school text MUDs.
https://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/tie/html/moo-tech/moo-tech.html
A technical introduction to MOOs (Multi-user Object-Oriented environments) written in French by Daniel K. Schneider at TECFA, University of Geneva, covering the history of MUDs, MUSEs, MUSHes, and MOOs alongside basic connection commands and navigation. Part of a broader "Technologies Internet et Education" guide series, this document serves as a structured learning module for understanding text-based virtual worlds.
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://dcastle.org/
Dark Castle MUD is a free fantasy text-based multiplayer game featuring over 100 original areas, player-run clans, an automated quest system, PvP combat, and an in-game casino and auction house. Players build characters across a variety of races and classes, competing on leaderboards and exploring an ever-evolving world accessible via telnet.
http://forum.ifzentrale.de/
if-de is a German-language community forum dedicated to interactive fiction and text adventures, covering both German and English-language games with sections for discussion, tips, and reviews. The forum also hosts dedicated boards for authoring tools like Inform, TADS, and Floyd, making it a hub for German-speaking IF creators and players alike.
http://newmoonmud.org/
New Moon is a long-running LPMud set in a medieval fantasy world, accessible via telnet at newmoonmud.org:7680 and welcoming to newcomers with guides, FAQs, maps, and client download recommendations. The site serves as the official hub for players and creators alike, featuring a beginner's guide, help pages, staff directory, and a gallery of citizen portraits.
https://jhcore.sourceforge.net/
JHCore is a core database package for the LambdaMOO MUD server, offering an alternative to LambdaCore with a rich set of features for building virtual worlds and text-based applications. Programmers and MUD builders will find extensive support for English pronoun substitution, hypertext help systems, navigational tools, module systems, and group-based administrative privilege assignment.
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://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.