Muddy Waters (online game)

Muddy Waters
Developer(s)	Project community
Engine	CD
Platform(s)	Platform independent
Genre(s)	Historical fantasy MUD
Mode(s)	Multiplayer
Media/distribution	Online
System requirements Telnet client or MUD client, Internet access

Muddy Waters, frequently abbreviated MW, is a long-running MUD, a text-based online role-playing game, founded in 1993. It has received positive critical response.^[1]

Game characteristics

A screenshot of the Muddy Waters login sequence

The setting of Muddy Waters is a "historical fantasy environment".^[2] Player characters may be of the human, elf, dwarf, or hobbit races.^[2]

A distinctive feature of the game is its book of character histories, which contains the name and description of every character generated on the MUD.^[1]

Muddy Waters supports a gameinfo command at its initial login screen to help new players orient themselves.^[2][1]

Reception

The character creation process of Muddy Waters has been called "particularly poetic",^[1] and was used as an example "fairly typical for all MUDs" in Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and Bots.^[3]

Technical infrastructure

Muddy Waters is an LPMud^[3][1] based on the CD gamedriver and mudlib.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Benedikt, Claire Lisette; Ciskowski, Dave (1995). MUDs: Exploring Virtual Worlds on the Internet. BradyGames. pp. 166–169. ISBN 1-56686-246-9. "[pp. 169] Muddy Waters is a fine LP MUD, with a large population of players, a sprawling, detailed world, and a nice balance of quests and combat." 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Hoffman, Allan (1995). 50 Fun Ways to Internet. Book-mart Press. pp. 115–116. ISBN 1-56414-176-4. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Cheong, Fah-Chun (1996). Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and Bots. New Riders. pp. 256–266. ISBN 1562054635. 
4. ^ "Muddy Waters". The Mud Connector. 1999-03-24. http://www.mudconnect.com/mud-bin/simple_search.cgi?Mode=MUD&mud=Muddy+Waters. Retrieved 2010-11-29. 

External links

• Mud Connector listing