Killer Squeak App?

Lawson English english7 at mindspring.com
Mon Aug 20 08:35:30 UTC 2001


on 8/19/01 11:16 AM, Paul Davidowitz at pdavidow_squeak at beethoven.com wrote:

> Excuse me, but what is a 'MUD' ?
> 

http://www.inetsolve.com/~ucmm/questions/muddef.php3

COMPLETE DICTIONARY DEFINITION


MUD /muhd/ n. [acronym, Multi-User Dungeon; alt. Multi-User Domain] 1. A
class of virtual reality experiments accessible via the Internet. These are
real-time chat forums with structure; they have multiple `locations' like an
adventure game, and may include combat, traps, puzzles, magic, a simple
economic system, and the capability for characters to build more structure
onto the database that represents the existing world.2. vi. To play a MUD.
The acronym MUD is often lowercased and/or verbed; thus, one may speak of
`going mudding', etc.


There is also a category called "graphical MUD" which allows one to use 2D
or 3D graphics to display the gameworld instead of providing a text-based
description ala Zork.

More sophisticated users in the more sophisticated MUDs are often allowed to
extend the gameworld in some way -the most elaborate games use built-in
scripting languages for this purpose.




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