Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): Text-Based Multiplayer Virtual Worlds

Summary

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs), which are multiplayer real-time virtual worlds typically text-based or storyboarded. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash gameplay, player versus player combat, interactive fiction, and online chat. Players interact with virtual environments by reading descriptions of rooms, objects, other players, and non-player characters, and perform actions within these persistent virtual worlds.