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Realms Of Despair
DikuMUD is a multiplayer text-based role-playing game, which is a type of multi-user domain (MUD). It was written in 1990 and 1991 by Sebastian Hammer, Tom Madsen, Katja Nyboe, Michael Seifert, and Hans Henrik Stærfeldt at DIKU (''Datalogisk Institut Københavns Universitet'')—the department of computer science at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. Commonly referred to as simply "Diku", the game was greatly inspired by AberMUD, though Diku became one of the first multi-user games to become popular as a freely-available program for its gameplay and similarity to ''Dungeons & Dragons''. The gameplay style of the great preponderance of DikuMUDs is hack and slash, which is seen proudly as emblematic of what DikuMUD stands for. Diku's source code was first released in 1990. Development and history DikuMUD was created by the University of Copenhagen's Department of Computer Science among a group of student friends: Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, Hans Henrik Staerfel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Seifert (programmer)
Michael Seifert (born February 1969 in Copenhagen) is a Danish computer programmer, inventor,Seifert and ChristensenUnited States Patent 8,255,526 "A method for collecting human experience analytics data", August 2012 businessman, and entrepreneur in the IT industry. He is co-developer of DikuMUD, a popular multiplayer text-based role-playing game codebase, and former chief executive officer of Sitecore, a global customer experience management software company, which he co-founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2001. In 2013 Seifert won Denmark's annual IT Prize ( IT-Prisen) for lifetime achievement in the field of information technology. PublicSq. (Public Square) is an American online marketplace which bills itself as "anti-woke" and supportive of the anti-abortion movement and conservatism. It was founded by Michael Seifert and is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. As of July 2023, the platform hosts over 55,000 small businesses. Early life Seifert was born in Copenhagen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raph Koster
Raphael "Raph" Koster (born September 7, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, computer game designer, game designer, and author of ''A Theory of Fun for Game Design''. Koster is widely recognized for his work as the lead designer of ''Ultima Online'' and the creative director behind ''Star Wars Galaxies''. From 2006 until 2013 he worked as the founder and president of Metaplace (previously operating as Areae and acquired by social gaming company Playdom in 2010, which was in turn acquired by Disney) producing a Facebook game platform. Biography Koster attended Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, receiving a bachelor's degree in English (creative writing) and Spanish in 1992. The same year he became involved with Multi-user dungeon, MUDs as a developer of ''Worlds of Carnage'', then in 1994 moved on to become implementor of ''LegendMUD'', where he was known as Ptah. He also played ''MUME'' for a time. On May 10, 1992, he married Kristen who would later work alongside him at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rent (MUD)
This is a glossary of terms common in multi-user dungeon (MUD) multiplayer virtual worlds. A–Z See also * Glossary of video game terms Since the origin of video games in the early 1970s, the video game industry, the players, and surrounding culture have spawned a wide range of technical and slang terms. 0–9 A ... References Bibliography * * * {{Glossaries of computers Computing terminology Video game terminology Video game lists Glossaries of computers Wikipedia glossaries using description lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chronology Of MUDs
This is a chronological list of notable MUD Mud (, or Middle Dutch) is loam, silt or clay mixed with water. Mud is usually formed after rainfall or near water sources. Ancient mud deposits hardened over geological time to form sedimentary rock such as shale or mudstone (generally cal ...s with summary information. __TOC__ Legend List References Multi-user dungeon Lists of video games by genre {{DEFAULTSORT:MUDs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sequent (MUD)
Sequent was a DikuMUD derivative codebase developed by Raja Kushalnagar ("Duke of Sequent"). It was a text-based online role-playing game that was an accessible DikuMUD based MUD. It added several new playing areas with shorter text descriptions that was designed to be accessible to users with sensory disabilities. It also supported more players online at the same time by being hosted on a Sequent multi-processor machine at the University of California, Berkeley, and was first started in March 1991. History ''The Sequent DikuMUD'' enhanced both the codebase and database of the DikuMUD Gamma version. The codebase enhancements increased the number of spells and guilds, plus supporting multiple active zones, chat channels and guilds. It added several new playing areas with shorter text descriptions that was designed to be accessible to users with sensory disabilities. DikuMUD had been a great leveler and allowed people from diverse regions to connect and play together. People with s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TorilMUD
''TorilMUD'' is a MUD, a text-based online role-playing game, and is one of the oldest and largest of its kind. Game characteristics ''TorilMUD'' is set in the Forgotten Realms ''Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign setting. Toril is the name of the planet where the continent Faerûn, which "Forgotten Realms" refers to, is located. Its technical infrastructure is based on the Sequent derivative of the DikuMUD codebase. History Kris Kortright, a developer from the MUD ''Black Knights Realm'', founded ''Sojourn'', set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game, in 1993, along with Tim Devlin and John Bashaw. ''Sojourn'' was based on the Sequent codebase, the ''Epic'' spell system, and areas from ''Black Knights Realm''. The City of Waterdeep was the first zone built entirely for ''Sojourn''. Brad McQuaid was an avid player of ''Sojourn''. Seeing the commercial potential of virtual worlds in the course of his MUD career, he went on to create ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |