Games, Tech

MUD: a classical gaming experience

Jason
Thursday
10:32 am

There was a gray period somewhere in between board games and MMORPGs. Video game consoles were just reaching a tipping point. There was this thing called the internet and geeks were trying to combine a love of paper based RPGs and the billions of people connected to the internet. And from that came Multi User Dungeons, or better known as MUDs.

MUDs are basically an entire world based in text. Most have a theme, allowing gamers to submerge themselves away from the real world. I call it Zork on crack. Depending on the mud (or mush, moo, mu, whichever extension they want to use), experiences can range from a full roleplay ..read more