Darker Realms
Encyclopedia
Darker Realms is a MUD
, a multi-user text-based role-playing game, set in a medieval fantasy
world. Operating since June 1990, it was one of the first LPMud
s to open, and is the oldest continually running LPMud in the United States and the second oldest in the world (after Genesis LPMud
). It was also the first MUD of any kind to feature a quest-based
advancement system. It has been described as "one of the largest MUDs on the Internet".
to control their character, with commands like
DR maintains many of the classic elements of an LPMud, as well as several very distinctive guilds, original quests of varying difficulty, text versions of over a dozen card and board games, and a good number of more modern features such as built-in colors and aliases.
MUD
A MUD , pronounced , is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, with the term usually referring to text-based instances of these. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat...
, a multi-user text-based role-playing game, set in a medieval fantasy
Medieval fantasy
Medieval fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that encompasses medieval era high fantasy and sometimes simply represents fictitious versions of historic events. This subgenre is common among role-playing games, text-based roleplaying, and high-fantasy literature....
world. Operating since June 1990, it was one of the first LPMud
LPMud
LPMud, abbreviated LP, is a family of MUD server software. Its first instance, the original LPMud game driver, was developed in 1989 by Lars Pensjö...
s to open, and is the oldest continually running LPMud in the United States and the second oldest in the world (after Genesis LPMud
Genesis LPMud
Genesis LPMud, a multi-player computer game, is the original LPMud founded in April 1989 by Lars Pensjö, now running on CD gamedriver and mudlib, and previously hosted by Chalmers Computer Society, though hosting has since been moved to a dedicated, private server. Medieval fantasy is the general...
). It was also the first MUD of any kind to feature a quest-based
Quest (gaming)
A quest in role-playing video games — including massively multiplayer online role-playing games and their predecessors, MUDs — is a task that a player-controlled character or group of characters may complete in order to gain a reward...
advancement system. It has been described as "one of the largest MUDs on the Internet".
Game characteristics
In the MUD, players use a natural-language-like command parserParsing
In computer science and linguistics, parsing, or, more formally, syntactic analysis, is the process of analyzing a text, made of a sequence of tokens , to determine its grammatical structure with respect to a given formal grammar...
to control their character, with commands like
l at shield (short for look at shield) and west.DR maintains many of the classic elements of an LPMud, as well as several very distinctive guilds, original quests of varying difficulty, text versions of over a dozen card and board games, and a good number of more modern features such as built-in colors and aliases.