Sojourn (online game)
Encyclopedia
Sojourn was a MUD
founded in 1993. During its lifespan, it was regarded as a leading source of innovation and content creation. At its height, it was extremely popular and content-rich. It was based on the Sequent
derivative of the DikuMUD
codebase.
campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons
role-playing game.
Black Knights Realm, founded Sojourn in 1993, along with Tim Devlin and John Bashaw.
Brad McQuaid
was an avid player of Sojourn. Seeing the commercial potential of virtual worlds in the course of his MUD career, he went on to create EverQuest
.
In 1996, due to creative differences between developers, Sojourn was forked
into two projects, TorilMUD
and Duris: Land of Bloodlust.
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...
founded in 1993. During its lifespan, it was regarded as a leading source of innovation and content creation. At its height, it was extremely popular and content-rich. It was based on the Sequent
Sequent (MUD)
Sequent was a DikuMUD based MUD running on a Sequent multiprocessor machine at sequent.berkeley.edu. It was started in March 1991. Raja Kushalnagar created Sequent from the original DikuMud codebase starting in January 1991 at the University of California, Berkeley.Notable MUDs running on the...
derivative of the DikuMUD
DikuMUD
DikuMUD is a multiplayer text-based role-playing game, which is a type of MUD. It was written in 1990 and 1991 by Sebastian Hammer, Tom Madsen, Katja Nyboe, Michael Seifert, and Hans Henrik Staerfeldt at DIKU —the department of computer science at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen,...
codebase.
Game characteristics
Sojourn was set in the Forgotten RealmsForgotten Realms
The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories...
campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
role-playing game.
History
Kris Kortright, a developer from the MUDMUD
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...
Black Knights Realm, founded Sojourn in 1993, along with Tim Devlin and John Bashaw.
Brad McQuaid
Brad McQuaid
Brad McQuaid is an American computer game designer who was the key designer of EverQuest, a highly successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in 1999...
was an avid player of Sojourn. Seeing the commercial potential of virtual worlds in the course of his MUD career, he went on to create EverQuest
EverQuest
EverQuest, often shortened to EQ, is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game that was released on the 16th of March, 1999. The original design is credited to Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover, and Bill Trost...
.
In 1996, due to creative differences between developers, Sojourn was forked
Fork (software development)
In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a legal copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software...
into two projects, TorilMUD
TorilMUD
TorilMUD is a MUD, a text-based online role-playing game, and is one of the oldest and largest of its kind.-Game characteristics:TorilMUD is set in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting...
and Duris: Land of Bloodlust.