Muddy Waters (online game)
| Muddy Waters | |
|---|---|
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| Developer(s) | Project community |
| Engine | CD |
| Platform(s) | Platform independent |
| Genre(s) | Historical fantasy MUD |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
| Distribution | Online |
Muddy Waters, frequently abbreviated MW, is a long-running MUD, a text-based online role-playing game, founded in 1993. It has received positive critical response.[1]
Game characteristics
The setting of Muddy Waters is a "historical fantasy environment".[2] Player characters may be of the human, elf, dwarf, orc, or hobbit races.[2]
A distinctive feature of the game is its book of character histories, which contains the name and description of every character generated on the MUD.[1]
Muddy Waters supports a gameinfo command at its initial login screen to help new players orient themselves.[2][1]
Reception
The character creation process of Muddy Waters has been called "particularly poetic",[1] and was used as an example "fairly typical for all MUDs" in Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and Bots.[3]
Technical infrastructure
Muddy Waters is an LPMud[3][1] based on the CD gamedriver and mudlib.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Benedikt, Claire Lisette; Ciskowski, Dave (1995). MUDs: Exploring Virtual Worlds on the Internet. BradyGames. pp. 166–169. ISBN 1-56686-246-9.
[pp. 169] Muddy Waters is a fine LP MUD, with a large population of players, a sprawling, detailed world, and a nice balance of quests and combat.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hoffman, Allan (1995). 50 Fun Ways to Internet. Book-mart Press. pp. 115–116. ISBN 1-56414-176-4.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cheong, Fah-Chun (1996). Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and Bots. New Riders. pp. 256–266. ISBN 1-56205-463-5.
- ↑ "Muddy Waters". The Mud Connector. 1999-03-24. Retrieved 2010-11-29.