Once or twice a year I find a tiny nugget of information about the early 90s MUD HeroMUD, which ran on University of Michigan servers in #annarbor, and once again become determined to learn more about the game since I highly doubt I'll ever find the code
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Once or twice a year I find a tiny nugget of information about the early 90s MUD HeroMUD, which ran on University of Michigan servers in #annarbor, and once again become determined to learn more about the game since I highly doubt I'll ever find the code
The Lost World of HeroMUD | Virtual Moose
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@MichaelKlamerus i love to tell people my MOO story when some friends and I ran one in high school ~2000 - it was tiny (only about 5 or 6 total players, just our friend group really) running on the LambdaMOO software. I believe everyone had the wizard permission to create objects and "dig" more rooms, so we ended up with a quasi-recreation of the school building complete with "secret" areas players used for their home base... mine in the parent-teacher conference room, behind a locked door w/ a key only I carried... iirc someone else camped out in the hidden orchestra pit beneath the stairs. One person had a poster on a wall you could move to reveal a secret passage.
The tools were so intuitive and the setup so minimal that it was easy to churn out a space by adding a name and description and then digging some exits, or creating an object and then just describing "it's a snowglobe" and so it was.
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@MichaelKlamerus someone set up that if you went to the nurse's office and injected yourself with one of the various syringes, you'd go on a drug trip (teleport to a new set of redecorated rooms) that matched the layout of the school but had far out descriptions and a talking penguin. After a few turns of that you'd warp back to the sick bed lol.
The most advanced thing we did was to get NPC bots running around to be the teachers - they'd spout off things we remembered them saying from class and sometimes interact with one another.
Unfortunately the computer this ran on, someone's cast-off 486 in their bedroom, one day literally caught fire and all was lost except the memories
