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Awesome MUD

A curated list of bookmarks, tools, tutorials, and other cool resources for text-based game developers.

Inspired by the awesome list thing. You might also like awesome-shell and awesome-cli-apps, which both support text-based living!

Want to add your awesome MUD resource? Make the change and open a pull request!

Contents

• Clients
• Codebases
• Hosting
• Communities

Clients

Log in and play.

• axmud - A modern Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client written in Perl 5 / Gtk3
• Blightmud - A mud client for the terminal
• BlowTorch - A MUD client for Android.
• JMC - Jaba MUD Client forks: by conelav and by nerevar
• KBtin - TinTin++-style MUD client
• mmc - the MUD client for UNIX and Win32
• muddle - Electron-Based MUD Client
• Mudlet - A cross-platform, MUD client with scripting in Lua.
• MUDRammer - Modern MUD client for the iPhone and iPad.
• powwow
• TinTin++ - Cross-platform, command line MUD client.
• Tortilla

Codebases

Active and retired MUD codebases.

• ArchaicQuest - C# web based MUD engine.
• AwakeMUD - Community fork of Awakened Worlds written in C++.
• BRus MUD Engine - Russian MUD engine in C++.
• CoffeMud - Java-based MUD engine.
• CurryMUD - Textual Multi-User Dungeon server in Haskell.
• DikuMUD3 - Latest DikuMID release with HTML and websockets support.
• DUM - A modern Python MU* engine.
• DragonMUD - MUD engine in GO.
• EmpireMUD - EmpireMUD is a MUD server with a persistent world map. It is a derivative of CircleMUD and DikuMUD.
• Evennia - Python MUD/MUX/MUSH/MU* development system.
• ExVenture - Elixir based MUD engine.
• FluffOS - actively maintained LPMUD driver, based on the last release of MudOS.
• HellCore - HellCore fork of LambdaMOO.
• Kalevala - World building toolkit for text based games, written in Elixir.
• Legends of Future Past - 1992 commercial MUD resurrected from original script files using AI. Go backend, React frontend, WebSocket multiplayer. MIT license. Play free.
• ldmud - LDMud game driver for LPMuds.
• Ranvier - Node.js-based MUD engine.
• RockMUD - Node.js-based WebSockets-capable MUD server.
• room.js - Node.js-based MUD/MOO engine.
• Tale - Mud, mudlib & interactive fiction framework.
• tbaMUD - tbaMUD is the continued development of the codebase formerly known as CircleMUD

Protocols

Specifications of various MUD-related protocols

• GMCP - Generic Mud Communication Protocol.
• MCCP - Mud Client Compression Protocol.
• MSP - Mud Sound Protocol.
• MSSP - Mud Server Status Protocol.
• MTTS - Mud Terminal Type Standard.
• Ironrealms GMCP - Specification of GMCP used by Iron Realms Nexus Client.
• Protocols supported by Mudlet - Docs about protocols supported by Mudlet.

Hosting

Places to put a MUD.

• DigitalOcean - Cloud-computing provider offering affordable virtual private servers.

Communities

Connect with other MUD enthusiasts.

• The MUD Coders Guild - Slack community for text-based game developers.
• r/MUD - Reddit's official MUD community.
• Titans of Text - MUD related podcast