Multi User Dungeons

Internet spreads throughout the world like a huge web, connecting computers in different continents and countries. Among the almost infinite applications enabled via the Internet, the ideas of multiuser games are quite common.

The first multiuser game (Multi User Dungeon - MUD) first occured on the Internet from the United Kingdoms. After some years the definition changed to Multi User Dimension, since the game no longer dwelled in narrow dungeons.

Today MUDs are frequent on most of the greatest universities in the world and are growing in popularity, not only among computer science students.

What is a Multi User Dimension?

The general idea of a MUD is to enable interactions in a fictive world via the Internet. Although most MUDs are textbased, MUDs runningin a X-windows environment or similar exists today and may become more common in the future.

To interact with players from all over the world is exciting and makes the game social in most reflections. Upon this, MUDs offer adventuring and solving quests and puzzles.

The balance of those aspects is unique to every MUD. There are also different themes for MUDs, as strictly medieval or even futuristic. The possibility for you to find a game that is well suited for you is large. ;-)

Many types of MUDs have evoluted since the first MUD, but in common they have the joy of interacting with others in a virtual world. The aber, lp, diku, mush, muse, moo...among others, are all different kinds of muds.

To find out more, you could try one of the followin MUDs:

Midnight Sun "telnet mud.ludd.luth.se 3000"

Northern Lights "telnet aber.ludd.luth.se 6715"

unicorn@ ludd.luth.se