MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
http://babel.ifarchive.org/
The Treaty of Babel is a technical standard and software suite that establishes a common bibliographic system for interactive fiction, assigning ISBN-like IDs to story files across formats like Inform, TADS, Hugo, and Twine. It provides cover art standards, metadata formats, and command-line tools so that IF players and archivists can treat all story file formats equally regardless of which design system created them.
http://textfire.de/tests/txa.htm
Textfire.de hosts a detailed review and technical breakdown of TxA, a text adventure authoring system by Viktor Krammer designed for MS-DOS and Linux. The site covers TxA's compiler/interpreter architecture, its scripting language syntax, block structures like [INIT], [ROOM], and [INVENTORY], and serves as part of a broader German-language resource hub for interactive fiction enthusiasts.
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://df.lth.se/~mol/if.html
Magnus has built a personal hub dedicated to interactive fiction, covering its literary merits, his own four published text adventure games, and resources for aspiring IF authors including Inform and TADS. The site also features criticism and analysis of notable IF works like Andrew Plotkin's 'So Far' and 'Dreamhold,' making it a thoughtful companion for both players and creators.
https://timesmud.com/
Medieval Times MUD is a text-based multiplayer roleplaying game hosted at timesmud.com port 8500, featuring over 170 unique zones, a remort system, ANSI color graphics, and a rich mix of magic and melee classes. Players can explore dungeons, defeat dragons and grand wizards, collect epic loot, and engage in trade skills and questing across a sprawling medieval fantasy world.
http://plover.net/~pscion/inform7.html
Ron Newcomb's in-depth technical guide to Inform 7, the natural-language programming language used to create interactive fiction, written specifically for experienced programmers coming from conventional languages. Covering everything from types and rulebooks to grammar quirks and low-level hacking, it serves as a comprehensive bridge between traditional coding concepts and I7's unique paradigm.
https://elissablack.com/swords-of-freeport
Elissa Black, a writer and game developer, announces Swords of Freeport, a text-mode ANSI-colour multiplayer game for Linux and Mac inspired by classic BBS Door games and MUDs like Legend of the Red Dragon. The post dives into her nostalgic love of once-a-day text RPGs from the 90s and details her development progress toward an MVP release on Itch.io.
http://ccxvii.net/spatterlight
Spatterlight is a native macOS Cocoa application that plays a wide range of interactive fiction formats including Z-code, Glulx, TADS, Hugo, and Magnetic Scrolls games. The site provides downloads, source code, and links to bibliographic iFiction files for classic commercial IF titles from companies like Infocom, Level 9, and Magnetic Scrolls.
http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/index.html
The Z-Machine Standards Document is the definitive technical reference for the Z-machine virtual machine, the platform that powers Infocom-style interactive fiction games. Version 1.0 covers everything from memory maps and opcode tables to screen models and saved-game formats, making it an essential read for anyone building or understanding IF interpreters.
https://deathlogs.com/
Deathlogs.com is a community hub for MUD players that archives combat logs, death records, kill statistics, and highscores across dozens of text-based online RPGs including Reinos de Leyenda, Final Realms, and Ancient Kingdoms. With tens of thousands of logs spanning multiple games in both English and Spanish, it serves as an invaluable historical record and competitive tracker for the MUD gaming community.