MUDs & Text Games
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https://outland.org/news.php
Avatar MUD (also known as AVATAR) is the official homepage for a long-running multi-user dungeon hosted at outland.org, featuring detailed resources on races, classes, geography, lore, and character progression tiers. Visitors can find game updates, player stat archives, newbie tips, MUD client guides for multiple platforms, forums, and even a photo gallery of the player community.
https://virtualnet.at/txa/index.htm
Viktor Krammer's TxA Text Adventure System is a development environment for creating text adventures on MS-DOS, Windows, and Linux, complete with a two-level parser supporting synonyms and optional words. The site includes documentation, a quick-start guide, downloadable games, and a sample excerpt from an original text adventure called 'The Blue Stone'.
https://snowplains.org/
Snowplains is a text-based talker (chat environment) built on the EW-too platform, where users connect via telnet to chat with people from around the world in a whimsical snowplain-themed virtual space. The site includes connection instructions, a building guide, residents' pages, and a 'spod chart' tracking who has spent the most time online.
https://dark-legacy.com/index.php
Dark Legacy is a free browser-accessible MUD (multi-user dungeon) set in the fantasy world of Alora, offering players 40 races, multiple classes, crafting, pet training, dungeon exploration, and player-built structures. Created by Daan van Yperen and running for over a decade, it features an extensive character customization system with ancestries, starsigns, and hundreds of physical traits.
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.
http://mud.arctic.org/
ArcticMUD is a free online multi-player text-based RPG set in the Dragonlance universe of Krynn, running continuously since 1992. Players can explore a massive world, complete quests, engage in player-vs-player combat, and choose from a variety of character classes and alignments inspired by TSR's beloved fantasy novels.
http://lysator.liu.se/nanny
NannyMUD is a long-running fantasy MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) that has been active since 1990, offering players a rich world of guilds, magic, and adventure accessible via telnet or a Java client. The site introduces the game's lore, people, and world, with references to Tolkien-inspired settings and a wide variety of playable character archetypes including knights, druids, vampires, and monks.
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://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.
https://aarchonmud.com/arc
Aarchon MUD is a long-running fantasy text-based multiplayer game featuring 16 classes, over 60 races, and nearly 10,000 rooms to explore across 85 unique zones. Players can join clans, craft gear, brew potions, compete on leaderboards, and tackle quests in a richly detailed world maintained by an active development team.