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Roleplaying MUDs, generally abbreviated as RP MUDs, encourage or enforce that players act out the role of their playing characters at all times. Some RP MUDs provide an immersive gaming environment, while others only provide a virtual world with no game elements.
In multiplayer online games, a MUSH (a backronymed [1] variation on MUD most often expanded as Multi-User Shared Hallucination, [2] [3] [4] though Multi-User Shared Hack, [5] Habitat, and Holodeck are also observed) is a text-based online social medium to which multiple users are connected at the same time.
Online text-based role playing games date to 1978, with the creation of MUD1, which began the MUD heritage that culminates in today's MMORPGs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Some online-text based role playing games are video games , but some are organized and played entirely by humans through text-based communication.
Games played in a real-time way include MUDs, MUSHes, and other varieties of MU*. Games played in a turn-based fashion include play-by-mail games and play-by-post games. Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) combine the large-scale social interaction and persistent world of MUDs with graphic
Genocide, an LPMud launched in 1992, was a pioneer in PvP conflict as the first "pure PK" MUD, [4] removing all non-PvP gameplay and discarding the RPG-style character development normally found in MUDs in favor of placing characters on an even footing, with only player skill providing an advantage. [5]
Cybersex through MUD commands or text [1] wiz To be promoted to wizard status after completing the game [1] wizard immort immortals Players with special rights, such as rights to create new MUD content; usually either MUD administrators, players who completed the game, or players appointed by an administrator to assist in its operation [1] [9]
The first virtual worlds were text-based and often called MUDs, but the term is frequently used in relation to massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) [1] and pervasive games. [2] Examples of persistent worlds that exist in video games include Battle Dawn, EVE Online, and Realms of Trinity. [citation needed]
FurryMUCK is one of the oldest and largest non-combat MUD-style games in existence.It was founded in 1990 [1] as an online gathering place for furry fans to meet and socialize in a virtual role-playing environment.