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Early history
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Popular variants
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Style
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Overview
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Overview
- Multiplayer Multiplayer video game
- Real-time Time-keeping systems in games
- Virtual world
- Text-based Text-based game
- Storyboarded Storyboard
- Role-playing games
- Hack and slash
- Player versus player
- Interactive fiction
- Online chat
- Non-player characters Non-player character
- Natural language
- Avatar Avatar (computing)
- Role-playing video game
- Fantasy
- Classes Character class
- Monsters Monster
- Roleplaying
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Science fiction
- Graphical MUDs Multi-user dungeon
- Flexible nature Turing completeness
- Computer science
- Geoinformatics
- Medical informatics
- Analytical chemistry
- Communications Communication
- Sociology
- Law
- Economics
Early history
- Colossal Cave Adventure
- Will Crowther
- DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
- PDP-10
- Adventure game
- Don Woods Don Woods (programmer)
- Dungeon master
- Dungeon crawlers Dungeon crawl
- PLATO system
- Pedit5
- Moria Moria (PLATO)
- Dnd Dnd (PLATO video game)
- MIT
- Zork
- ARPANET
- Ported
- FORTRAN
- Roy Trubshaw
- University of Essex
- MACRO-10
- BCPL
- Richard Bartle
- JANET
- X.25
- CompuServe
- MIST MIST (MUD)
- Ben Laurie
- Online creation
- Tolkienesque
- Prestel
Popular variants
- Codebase
- Alan Cox Alan Cox (computer programmer)
- University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Unix
- TinyMUD
- LPMud
- DikuMUD
- Richard Skrenta
- VAX
- VMS OpenVMS
- James Aspnes
- TinyMUD family TinyMUD family tree
- TinyMUCK
- TinyMUSH
- MUF MUF (programming language)
- Forth Forth (programming language)
- MUSH
- MU*
- MOO
- Brigadoon
- Lars Pensjö
- AberMUD
- Virtual machine
- LPC programming language LPC (programming language)
- Jörn "Amylaar" Rennecke Jörn Rennecke
- Felix "Dworkin" Croes Felix Croes
- Descendants of the original LPMud LPMud family tree
- MudOS
- DGD Dworkin's Game Driver
- SWLPC SWLPC (programming language)?action=edit&redlink=1
Gameplay
- Non-player characters
- Syntax highlighting
- Keyboard macros Keyboard macro
Style
- Gameplay
- Game mechanics Game mechanic
- Game genres Video game genres
- Non-game
- Player versus environment
- Questing Quest (gaming)
- Genocide Genocide (online game)
- Role-playing Role-playing game
- Talker
- Ew-too Ew-too?action=edit&redlink=1
- NUTS NUTS (talker)?action=edit&redlink=1
- Cat Chat
- MicroMUSE
- Diversity University
- Constructionist learning Constructionism (learning theory)
- Computer graphics
- Habitat Habitat (video game)
- Randy Farmer
- Chip Morningstar
- Lucasfilm
- User interface
- Meridian 59
- Dark Age of Camelot
- RuneScape
- Richard Garriott
Development
- Ain Soph Mudlib
- CDlib CD gamedriver and mudlib
- Discworld Mudlib
- Lima Mudlib
- LPUniversity Mudlib
- MorgenGrauen Mudlib
- Nightmare Mudlib Nightmare Mudlib?action=edit&redlink=1
- TMI Mudlib
Community
- United States
- Massively Massively (blog)
Psychology and engagement
- Sherry Turkle
- A Story About A Tree
- LegendMUD
- Styles of play Bartle Test
- Experience points, levels Experience point
- Game mechanical Game mechanics
Grammatical usage and derived terms
- Compound words Compound (linguistics)
- Portmanteaux Portmanteau word
- Mudsex Cybersex
- Mudflation
- Puns Pun
- CoffeeMUD CoffeeMUD?action=edit&redlink=1
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Nodes206
Edges205
Triples22
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009709
Components1
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Important terminology
mud muds game world games many players player online called role-playing virtual also first tinymud lpmud university graphical later early
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the social virtual worlds exemplified by Second Life | instance of | and related virtual world genres | 0.80 | text |
| can be traced directly back to the MUD genre | instance of | and related virtual world genres | 0.80 | text |
| CompuServe | instance of | The 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… | 0.80 | text |
| player-run governments | instance of | skill-based player vs player combat and concepts | 0.80 | text |
| player housing.Later historyIn 2004 | instance of | skill-based player vs player combat and concepts | 0.80 | text |
| significant usages of MUDs included | instance of | skill-based player vs player combat and concepts | 0.80 | text |
| player housing | instance of | skill-based player vs player combat and concepts | 0.80 | text |
| Jörn | instance of | Pensjö's interest in LPMud eventually waned and development was carried on by others | 0.80 | text |
| take apple or attack dragon | instance of | To carry out a task the player would enter a text command | 0.80 | text |
| syntax highlighting | instance of | with features | 0.80 | text |
| keyboard macros | instance of | with features | 0.80 | text |
| and connection assistance | instance of | with features | 0.80 | text |
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