Mud Resouces and Links
This page is very likely quite out of date, and the links on it are probably broken.
Imaginary Realities
An on-line MUD magazine that we hope will remain in business. The have some good articles for everyone, from newbies to wizards. Hopefully they will keep putting out issues on a regular basis.
Richard Bartle's MUD Writings Archive
Includes links and short extracts from many old and obscure writings on mud-like games. There is some neat stuff here, but it may not appeal to most people.
The Curious Area Workshop
An early effort to make good areas for Merc and Diku style muds. Most everything that came out of CAW was high quality, interesting, and entertaining. While CAW has been closed for several years, there is still a great deal of very good information on thier site.
Some general area building tips
From the CAW builder's guide. This guide is written from the standpoint of making areas for a DIKU style mud, but there are a lot of common sense things in it that would be good to remember when making an area for any mud. Recommended reading if you want to build an area.
Ed Snible's Mud Info archive on servers and building
A good place to get information about the administrative, system, and questing side of muds. This is a good place to check into if you intend to bring up your own mud to play with.
Ftp.game.org
One of the biggest download sites for mud servers, clients, areas, patches, snippets, and other gunk. If you want to see how muds work, or put up one of your own to screw around with, this is a good place to get tools. (Note: it is now possible to run most types of muds under Windows 95/98/NT. We strongly recommend _against_ this practice. If you want to run a mud, get one of the free unicies, such as Linux or FreeBSD. Windows is an inherently unstable environment, and you will need tools that do not come with default installations of windows.)
The "MUD-Dev" MUD Development mailing list
This is a mailing list concerned with various issues in MUD development. Mainly for implementors. The MUD-Dev list is hosted by www.kanga.nu, which has other resources on it that may be of interest.
The Mud Journal
A periodical journal for articles related to mudding, everything from design to player tactics.
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