MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
https://pixelscapes.com/nscape
A memorial page for NightscapeMUX, a now-defunct MUX game, featuring archival character art and splash screens recovered from an old hard drive by artist Jen Gagne. The page serves as both a farewell to former players and a showcase of the original artwork that was created for the game's website.
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.
http://ben.com/MOO/tf-mcp.html
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.
http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle
Gargoyle is a free, open-source interactive fiction interpreter that supports all major IF formats, eliminating the need to download separate players for each game type. It stands out for its exceptional typography features including subpixel font rendering, kerning, ligatures, and smart quotes, making it a polished and thoughtfully crafted tool for IF enthusiasts.
https://torilmud.com/
Toril is a long-running MUD set in the Forgotten Realms D&D campaign setting, featuring over 325 explorable zones spanning iconic locations like Baldur's Gate, Waterdeep, and the Underdark. Running continuously since 1993, it offers fifteen player races, seventeen classes, and massive group raids against legendary foes like Tiamat, all playable through a custom web client.
https://mud.co.uk/richard/incarns.htm
Richard A. Bartle, co-creator of the original MUD, documents every production incarnation of MUD from its 1978 origins at Essex University through its many commercial and hobbyist deployments across decades. A fascinating primary-source history listing dates, hosts, version numbers, nicknames, and detailed notes about each iteration straight from the man who built it.
https://crawl.tildeverse.org/
The Tildeverse DCSS Server hosts a public instance of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the classic roguelike game, accessible via SSH connection from any Linux, BSD, or macOS terminal. Visitors can play console games, browse morgue files and player recordings, and find setup scripts for tilde server operators who want to offer DCSS access to their own users.
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://planet-if.com/
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.
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.