TubMUD is an English language
MUD
A MUD (; originally multi-user dungeon, with later variants multi-user dimension and multi-user domain) is a Multiplayer video game, multiplayer Time-keeping systems in games#Real-time, real-time virtual world, usually Text-based game, text-bas ...
which went online in 1990. TubMUD claims to be one of the oldest German MUDs. Tubmud is an offshoot of the Swedish
Genesis LPMud
''Genesis LPMud'', a multi-player computer game, is the original LPMud founded in April 1989 by Lars Pensjö, now running on CD gamedriver and mudlib, and previously hosted by ''Chalmers Computer Society'', though hosting has since been moved to ...
and used parts of its library during TubMUD's starting phase.
Community
Tubmud had taken a large community of MUD Wizards (programmers) and the library was obtained from various other MUDs in 1990. It ran on the computers of the computer science department of
Technical University of Berlin
The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...
, but from 2007 the MUD has been provided by the MUD administrators on a private basis.
Technology
Tubmud is a long-running
LPMud
LPMud, abbreviated LP, is a family of MUD server software. Its first instance, the original LPMud game driver, was developed in 1989 by Lars Pensjö (hence the LP in LPMud). LPMud was innovative in its separation of the MUD infrastructure into a ...
, with core code is written in
C and a library written in
LPC
LPC may refer to:
Science and technology
* Linear predictive coding, a method used in audio signal processing and speech processing
* Leaf protein concentrate, a concentrated form of the proteins found in the leaves of plants
* Long period comet, ...
.
As in many MUDs, the code-base has been modified by the high-level users.
Connection to the MUD is done via
Telnet
Telnet is an application protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control i ...
, usually through one of the many
MUD client
A MUD (; originally multi-user dungeon, with later variants multi-user dimension and 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 ...
s with a convenient user interface.
Contents
The world of Tubmud
[http://www.tubmud.de/tubmud.gif A map of TubMUD] consists of many thematically different areas, each overseen by a wizard, with ''domains'' the responsible of multiple wizards. The overall scenario is medieval fantasy; technology is prohibited.
Publications
* Ragnhild Tronstad:'' interpretation, performance, play, & Seduction:. Textual Adventures in Tubmud''
PhD PHD or PhD may refer to:
* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
* Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group
** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...
. Oslo 2004 Unipub.
* Ragnhild Tronstad:'' https://web.archive.org/web/20081017190855/http://www.brown.edu/Research/dichtung-digital/2003/issue/4/tronstad/index.htm Defining a Tubmud Ludology'' seal Digital No. 4, 2003. (English)
References
External links
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MUDs
Role-playing video games
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