~ Early Web Links ~

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.

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.

Planet Interactive Fiction is a blog aggregator maintained by Christopher Armstrong that collects posts from dozens of writers, reviewers, and developers across the interactive fiction community. Covering tools like Inform 7, TADS, ADRIFT, and Z-Machine alongside reviews, walkthroughs, and craft essays, it serves as a central hub for anyone passionate about text adventures and parser games.

Nightfall is one of the oldest continuously running MUDs in existence, operating since 1990 and offering a rich text-based multiplayer world with over 100 quests, multiple guilds, and diverse races. Visitors can connect via telnet or a built-in web client, and the site provides extensive documentation including a quickstart guide, lore, maps, and player help resources.

Scott Neal Reilly's Interactive Fiction Page is a comprehensive directory of resources for both players and developers of text-based adventure games, with links to FTP archives, FAQs, reviews, platform-specific game collections, and community publications like SPAG and XYZZYnews. Maintained by a former CMU researcher who later worked at Zoesis Studios on interactive characters, the site bridges classic text-based IF with emerging realtime interactive storytelling.

A page documenting Regenesis, a graphical LP-MUD hosted by Lysator (Linköping University) that supported X11, Amiga, Mac, and MS-DOS graphical clients to render in-game imagery alongside text. The MUD used the BSX protocol developed by Bram Stolk to deliver visual context to players, making it a notable early experiment in graphical multi-user dungeon gameplay from the early 1990s.

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.

A technical resource page dedicated to MCP (MUD Client Protocol) support for TinyFugue, a popular MUD client, featuring custom macros for local editing and protocol implementation. The author rewrote MCP 2.1 support from scratch to handle arbitrary keyword/value pairs and background editing under X Windows, filling a significant gap in the existing TF macro ecosystem.

Turf MUD is a long-running, free text-based multi-user game and talker featuring over 65 unique areas spanning genres from fantasy to modern life, with clans, leagues, and an active social scene. The site provides everything a player needs, from newbie guides and maps to clan listings, help files, and humorous community content like player quotes and meetup photos.

CheesyMUD is a multi-user dungeon (MUD) experience with its own staff, sports, and active play portal. The site invites visitors to jump into a text-based online game world with a lighthearted, cheesy twist on the classic MUD format.