Tag: Roy Trubshaw

And so, as promised, I come to the end of this blog’s overlong involvement with MUD1. I never intended to spend so long playing it, and I certainly never intended to take a ten-month break between posts. Still, real life can be hard sometimes, and virtual life can sometimes be […]

I’ve been playing MUD1 solidly since my last post, and I think I’m finally getting to the point where I’ve explored most of the game. There are still a load of things I haven’t discovered a purpose for, and a few areas I can’t get to, but I’m pretty sure I’ve […]

I could quite easily stop playing MUD1 now, and move on to the next game in the queue, but every time I play it I find something new.  It’s a large game, with an interesting world to explore, and even though there are no concrete goals to it, I’m finding […]

Thought I was dead, didn’t you? I am in fact very much alive, and ready to resume blogging. Over the last year I’ve had a hellishly long commute to work, and I haven’t had the time or the mental energy for writing.  But due to certain very positive changes in […]

After that little detour into Richard Garriot’s DND1, it’s time to get back to my regular schedule with the similarly-named MUD1.  MUD1 (which stands for Multi-User Dungeon) was created by a student named Roy Trubshaw in 1978 at the University of Essex, on a DEC PDP-10 mainframe (with development later […]