{"id":10362,"date":"2013-06-08T13:26:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T18:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10362"},"modified":"2013-06-08T13:26:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T18:26:42","slug":"the-birth-of-mmos-world-of-warcrafts-debt-to-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10362","title":{"rendered":"The birth of MMOs: World of Warcraft&#8217;s debt to MUD"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Before there were the current generations of MMOs there were MUDs \u2013 multi-user dungeons or &#8216;dimensions&#8217;. And before there were MUDs there was MUD: A multi-player, text-based game running off a mainframe at Essex University.<\/p>\n<p>MUD (known as MUD1 since the release of its successor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mud.co.uk\/muse\/escape.htm\" target=\"_blank\">MUD2<\/a>) used an interface similar to that of single player text adventure games and transplanted it to a multi-player realm where players could live virtual lives, solving puzzles, collecting treasure and killing fantastic creatures (and\/or each other). The game launched in 1978, developed by Essex students Roy Trubshaw and, later, Richard Bartle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techworld.com.au\/article\/464068\/birth_mmos_world_warcraft_debt_mud\/\">The birth of MMOs: World of Warcraft&#8217;s debt to MUD &#8211; games &#8211; Software &#8211; Techworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before there were the current generations of MMOs there were MUDs \u2013 multi-user dungeons or &#8216;dimensions&#8217;. And before there were MUDs there was MUD: A multi-player, text-based game running off a mainframe at Essex University. MUD (known as MUD1 since &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[661,645,515],"class_list":["post-10362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-gaming","tag-history","tag-mmorp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}