~ Early Web Links ~

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.

Medievia is a long-running free-to-play MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) featuring an enormous world with sea exploration, dragon encounters, clan warfare, trading caravans, and player-built towns and castles. The game boasts a deeply social environment alongside complex gameplay mechanics including bloodlines, player-vs-player combat zones, and a dynamic system that tracks player emotions to shape the experience.

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.

LegendMUD is a long-running text-based multi-user dungeon set in a historically-grounded virtual world where players explore eras like Ancient, Medieval, and Industrial periods with a fantastical twist. Visitors can connect directly to the game, browse quest walkthroughs, and dive into richly described environments ranging from Victorian London to Celtic Ireland.

SPAG is a long-running magazine dedicated to interactive fiction, with a complete archive of 64 issues spanning from 1994 to 2016 covering reviews, articles, and commentary on text adventures and parser games. Maintained as a historical archive by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, it offers a remarkable window into decades of IF community discourse and criticism.

JediMUD is a classic text-based multiplayer RPG (MUD) offering adventure, PvE, PvP, quests, and a persistent world accessible via telnet or dedicated MUD clients. The site provides connection instructions, a new player guide, server status, and links to a community wiki and Discord for this long-running online game.

IFComp is the longest-running annual competition for interactive fiction, celebrating text-driven digital games and stories from independent creators since 1995. Now in its 31st year, the site hosts entry registration, prize pools through the Colossal Fund, past competition results, and extensive resources for both authors and judges.