I recently considered doing some work on a long time consideration and passion project. The project is turning the old MUD where I spent many a night awake until the next day playing, building, and just generally having fun into a 3-D reincarnation. If you don’t know what a MUD is, perhaps you should pay some respect to your elders! Or just look it up on Wikipedia… damn internet has made everything so easy these days.
So the basic gist is that Alsherok would go from a text-based world to a 3-D one. No small task, to be sure. However, the entirely awesome thing about MUDs and the many games genres spawned from them is that they are modular in nature. I could throw up a starting town, a couple of zones to fight in, and call it a day! This also strangely follows the Agile iterative approach to development… fancy that.
The first biggest hurdle is getting clear sign off from the copyright holders of the original work. Luckily I can still get in touch with them, or know someone that can. There goes the internet making things easy again. I have most of the ones I need already, but there are a couple outstanding. Worst case scenario is that there will be content that I can’t include. Best case scenario is everyone consents and I can attempt to include as much as possible.
I’ve put up a project page if you want to take a look at the proof of concept and all that. It’s right… ===>>>>>> here
Thanks for reading. I’m sure we’ll talk again soon.
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