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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 22 Jul 2001.
Re: Uh? I don't know....what's it supposed to be?

Re: Uh? I don't know....what's it supposed to be?

Max <No...@home.anymore> wrote in message
news:tll...@corp.supernews.co.uk...
> MUDs, call me lame or whatever you will, but what are they?
>
> I have a little programming knowlege, and could quite easily create a text
> based game (like those books that you choose your own fate) with ASCII art
> that anyone would like to submit. But it's only an idea.

MUD = Multi User Dungeon. Multiplayer games somewhere between original text
based adventures and nethack. With worst bits from both.

Don't bother to code one. The code itself is not complex, but as with rpgs
and roguelikes the work to be done is enormous. And nobody plays them
anyways...

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