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Richard A. Bartle: Players Who Suit MUDs
Discusses whether MUDs are games, pass times, sports or entertainments and suggests four kinds of player: achiever, explorer, socializer or killer.
http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm
DikuMUD Family Tree
The DikuMUD derivatives in a hierarchical tree with links to the code base homepages and/or the distribution.
http://www.game.org/heirarchy.html
Games/mud FAQ Index
Listing of online FAQ for MUD's.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/games/mud-faq/
Code begets community
Information about Daniel Pargman's Ph.D. thesis on the social and technical aspects of managing a virtual community, a study of a Swedish MUD. Sample chapters in PDF format.
http://esplanaden.lysator.liu.se/svmud/par...
MUSE Ltd.
Purveyors of fine, online games since 1985; principal products are MUD2 and the MUDDLE programming language and development system, both available for commercial licensing.
http://www.mud.co.uk/
An Atlas of Cyberspaces - MUDs and Virtual Worlds
An atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, WWW and other emerging Cyberspaces.
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/muds_v...
About.com: Multi-User Dungeons
Article featuring background information and resources.
http://internetgames.about.com/cs/mudmush/
Open Site
An article with an explanation of what MUDs are, an overview of their history, and a list of variants.
http://open-site.org/Games/Online/MUDs/
The Journal of Virtual Environments
The Journal of Virtual Environments is a refereed electronic journal which publishes research that relates to Virtual Environments or makes use of Virtual Environments.
http://www.brandeis.edu/pubs/jove/
Vae Victus
Contains news, logs, history, and a message board.
http://clan_vaevictus.tripod.com/news.html
Basic Information about MUDs and MUDding
FAQ about MUDs and MUDding.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/mud/faq/faq1.htm...
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2006