MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
https://jointhesaga.com/
OtherSpace MUSH is the home base for Wes Platt's long-running science fiction roleplaying game, featuring session logs, community links, and ongoing collaborative storytelling content. The site blends MUSH updates, roleplaying guides, essays, and humor pieces into a hub for players and fans of the OtherSpace universe.
https://4dimensions.org/
4Dimensions is a long-running MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) accessible on port 6000, featuring a rich world with custom races, classes, clans, and player-built areas inspired by universes like Xanth and Star Wars. Running since 1996, the site offers connection guides, forums, a wiki, and regular updates announcing newly added game zones.
https://skotos.net/articles/show-column.phtml%3Fcolname=playing.html
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.
https://quiz.ravenblack.net/blood.pl
Vampires! The Dark Alleyway is a browser-based multiplayer vampire role-playing game where players create their own vampire character and drink the blood of others to survive. The site serves as the login and registration portal for this classic text-driven online game, complete with a FAQ and how-to guide for new players.
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/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://jedimud.net/
JediMUD is a classic text-based multiplayer RPG (MUD) offering adventure, PvE, PvP, quests, and a persistent world accessible via telnet or dedicated MUD clients. The site provides connection instructions, a new player guide, server status, and links to a community wiki and Discord for this long-running online game.
https://tecfa.unige.ch/edu-comp/WWW-VL/eduVR-page.html
Part of the WWW Virtual Library's Educational Technology section, this page from TECFA (University of Geneva) catalogs resources on educational virtual reality environments, MOOs, and MUDs as learning tools. A comprehensive link directory compiled by Daniel K. Schneider, it covers academic projects, technical guides, and community resources for educators exploring text-based virtual worlds in the mid-to-late 1990s.
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.
http://lpmuds.net/lpmud_faq.html
LPMuds.net hosts a comprehensive FAQ resource for LPMud, the influential text-based multiplayer game server platform, preserving Descartes's classic FAQ originally authored by George Reese in 1994. Visitors will find detailed information about LPC programming, MUD drivers, mailing lists, and the history of the LPMud ecosystem, making it an essential reference for MUD administrators and players alike.