MUSHes/MUDs/MU*s

MUSHes (Multi-User Shared Hallucinations) are text-based games, primarily used for role-playing or socialising. I've been MUSHing since late 2001, usually under the name Talvo or Mike, on a couple of games. I tend to only play on PennMUSH games, as it's the codebase I'm most familiar with, and has the sanest parser, in my opinion.

Since early 2002, or thereabouts, I've also been writing MUSHcode (also known as softcode) for PennMUSHes. PennMUSH softcode is the language you use inside the games to write commands. Things like +who and +finger commands, as well as objects like wagons and vendors, are normally written using softcode. I've recently started cleaning up my code and making it available for download for others to use on their games; you can find it all on this site.

I've also written my own MUSH client, called Potato, in Tcl/Tk. MUSH Clients are the programs you use to connect to MUSHes (you can use raw telnet, but the clients generally have a lot more features, and are a lot easier to use).