MUD Resources

General Resources

• MUD-DEV Archives - archives of the Mud-Dev mailing list - THE mudding industry discussion board
• The homepage of Richard Bartle, co-creator of the original MUD software in 1979.
• Skotos.net Articles and mudding community
• Raph Koster's page, of Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies fame.
• Mud Development Wiki at Agora

Mud Directories

• The MudConnector
• Mud Directory portal

Journals

• Imaginary Realities (http://imaginaryrealities.imaginary.com/) - online mudding journal, defunct.
• Mud Journal (www.themudjournal.com), now defunct, was a mudding journal, part of the MudWorld site
• JASSS - Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

MUD Servers

• New Mud Codebases list, regularly updated
• 16K Mud Competition
• FTP.GAME.ORG Mud Archive
• Twilight Mind Design Group
• WorldForge Project
• Crystal Space 3D game development kit project
• MudOS line of lpMUD servers. (c.f. lpMUD FAQ)

Tools

Theory and Essays

• Skotos Articles:
  • Notes From The Dawn Of Time - series of MUD technology essays by Richard Bartle
  • Building Stories, Telling Games - essays by Travis Casey
  • Storms on Cloud 9 - by Scott Holliday, who is working on Orphan Crown, a fairy tale-based world.
• Game Theory essays

Free Graphical MUDs

• The BYOND Engine game and MUD engine.
• Graphical Muds category on Mud Connector
• The Worldforge Project aims to create a graphical mud engine.
• Planeshift (uses the Crystal Space dev kit)
• Furcadia is old and distinguished. (screenshot)
• Dark Lands of Alaria
• Mystic Realms of Alhanzar (screenshots)
• Dreamoor. The game is canceled, but check out the screenshots.
• Tibia (screenshots)
• Illarion (screenshots)
• Tildruin (screenshots)

Text-based MUDs

• Achaea - dreams of divine lands
• Retromud
• Discworld MUD
• Dart MUD
• DustMARE is the one I can be usually found on
• GuardianMARE - I'm watching its development with interest.