MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
http://tharsis-gate.org/index.html
Tharsis Gate is the official home of a fantasy-themed MUD featuring elves, dragons, guilds, and medieval adventure in a richly imagined world. Visitors can connect via Telnet or Java, browse getting-started guides, view guild information, and access an archived copy of the Imaginary Realities MUD e-zine.
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.
http://spagmag.org/archives
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.
http://ibgames.net/
IB Games is the home of Federation, a long-running space trading and exploration MUD that has been running since the 1980s, making it one of the oldest online multiplayer games in existence. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering downloads, documentation, and community resources for players of this pioneering text-based virtual world.
https://inferno3.com.br/
Inferno3 is a Brazilian MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) server running an open beta, accessible via Pueblo or MushClient clients at inferno3.com.br port 4000. The ASCII art splash page and visible player list give it an authentic old-school text game atmosphere, inviting players into a Portuguese-language online roleplaying world.
https://tharel.net/
Adventures Unlimited is a long-running text-based MUD set in the fantasy world of Tharel, online since 1999 and featuring 17,000 rooms, 9 character classes, 17 races, and a rich player-killing and roleplay system. With 12 unique deities, five religion-based clans, clan warfare mechanics, and a built-in automapper, this is a deeply developed old-school online RPG with an active community.
http://nodeka.com/
Nodeka is a real-time multiplayer online fantasy RPG featuring an overhead map client, a wildly complex crafting system, 120+ character classes, 80+ races, and over 400 quests with a morality engine. With thousands of skills, spells, and components to discover, it pitches itself as a deep and strategic alternative to traditional MUD-style games.
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://mudcoders.com/
The MUD Coders Guild is a long-form blog and community hub dedicated to the design, development, and history of MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons) and text-based games. Articles cover everything from game design philosophy and system architecture to technical topics like building Entity-Component-System frameworks in Elixir and Dockerizing MUD servers.
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.