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Multi-user dungeon

A multi-user dungeon (MUD, /mʌd/), also known as a multi-user dimension or multi-user domain, is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, usually text-based or storyboarded. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat. Players can read or view descriptions of rooms, objects, other…

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the social virtual worlds exemplified by Second Lifeinstance ofand related virtual world genres0.80text
can be traced directly back to the MUD genreinstance ofand related virtual world genres0.80text
CompuServeinstance ofThe games were retired commercially in 2000.The popularity of MUDs of the University of Essex tradition escalated in the United States during the late 1980s when affordable pers…0.80text
player-run governmentsinstance ofskill-based player vs player combat and concepts0.80text
player housing.Later historyIn 2004instance ofskill-based player vs player combat and concepts0.80text
significant usages of MUDs includedinstance ofskill-based player vs player combat and concepts0.80text
player housinginstance ofskill-based player vs player combat and concepts0.80text
Jörninstance ofPensjö's interest in LPMud eventually waned and development was carried on by others0.80text
take apple or attack dragoninstance ofTo carry out a task the player would enter a text command0.80text
syntax highlightinginstance ofwith features0.80text
keyboard macrosinstance ofwith features0.80text
and connection assistanceinstance ofwith features0.80text

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