GRAPHICAL MUDS AND MULTIPLAYER GAMES

This page was last updated on August 26, 1996. If you have any additions or corrections to this page please let me know.

GRAPHICAL MUDS

• Dragonspires: A commercial graphical MUD currently free of charge. Now with a Winsock compliant client.
• Meridean 59/Other Realms The first true 3D graphical mud.
• The Realm A commercial graphical mud.
• Illusia: A graphical mud requiring a special client running under windows/winsock. Rendered graphics.
• Rubies of Eventide A graphical mud.
• Tsunami Realms A graphical mud with an oriental style.
• EmpiresUpcoming graphical mud.
• Realms of Kesmai A graphical multi-player game. Pay to play.
• Kingdom of Drakkar: A commercial graphical MUD. Pay to play.
• Crossfire: A X-Windows based graphical MUD.
• Chiba MOO: A combination of WWW and MOO.
• Regenesis: A BSX graphic mud.
• DarkSun Crimson Sands: Commercial MUD like game by SSI/TSR. Currently in free beta test.
• Steel and Sorcery OnlineA graphical mud.
• Neverwinter Nights: A graphical MUD. I believe this MUD is made by the AD&D people and is only available on America On-Line.
• Shadow of Yserbius: Shadow of Yserbius is/was a online multi-player game on Sierra Online's Imagination Network. It was first person, semi-three dimentional, basicly made up of squares where you could turn, etc. Not fluid graphics like Doom. --Jeff Kramer
• Chaco Multi-Media MUD client "Pueblo" A 3D, rendered graphical client for MUD's. Uses VRML.
• AmigaMUD Full graphics, sound, mouse input, online building, etc. is not setup to handle telnet connections, only modem ones. The system and 100+ pages of documentation, along with 30,000 lines of sources to the scenario, is available on the "Aminet" ftp sites (e.g. wuarchive). Latest version is V0.9, with V1.0 coming as soon as possible. --Paraphrased from Chris Gray
• Interactive Games Network : Working on a java based graphical mud. Currently in the pre-alpha testing phase of development.
• Portals: Working on a graphical mud.
• Visionary: Graphical MUD project This is an older graphical mud project.
• Ultima On-Line: Upcoming commercially produced pay-to-play game/mud. Another site.
• Medievia: Currently a MUD which hopes to include some graphics by 1997 with Medievia V.
• Million Spheres: A java based mud in the making.
• Java MUD Interfaces: A list of Java mud interfaces.
• These are all on GEni Network: GemStone III, Orb Wars, Dragon's Gate, Island of Kesmai
• Realmsnet: I couldn't connect. Maybe the URL is wrong.
• Graphical MUD List
• The Dreamers Guild:

MULTI-PLAYER GAMES:

There are now more multiplayer games than I can keep up with but here are a few links.

• List of Multi-player games.
• Mpath Corporate Home Page It seems to be some type of extension to WWW to allow multiplayer gaming.
• TEN Home Page A gaming network.
• The Playing Fields A gaming network.
• Marathon A DOOM like game for the Mac which supports multi-player mode.
• DOOM/Heretic/Hexen/Quake DOOM , Heretic and Hexen allow for two players over a modem and up to four players by calling special dial up commercial networks. Hexen allows for three different character classes.
• DWANGO A network for playing multiplayer DOOM which has dialups located in many cities.
• The new Id game, Quake will be client/server based. It will support many more players (64?)
• KALI This is a software program that enables you to play multi-player games over the internet with either a direct link or a modem. The following games work with it: Doom, Heretic, Descent, Virtual Pool, Rise of the Triad, Terminal Velocity, Warcraft, PC Bolo. It should work with any other game designed for multiple players using IPX networks. It seems to convert IPX info to TCP/IP info.
• Netrek ][ Paradise Star Trek based graphical game.

GRAPHICAL CHAT ROOMS

• Worlds Away on CompuServe A graphical chat room.
• Worlds Chat from Worlds Inc A 3D graphical chat room. Now Alpha World which allows building.
• The Palace A graphical chat room with some Mud like features. An interface somewhat like the WWW.

Rumors

• Microsoft is working on VChat apparently a graphical chat room.
• Second Nature: I could not find out what this is.