Top Mud Sites Forum - God Wars II

God Wars II ended up in open beta for far longer than I'd originally intended, partly because I kept getting sidetracked and partly because I'm too picky about everything being "just right".

A few months ago I realised that the mud itself was already fully playable, so I decided to set myself a deadline to clear up as many of the outstanding minor issues as possible. That deadline is today, 19th July 2010. Exactly 5 years after open beta started, and exactly 15 years after the first advert for the original God Wars mud - so it was an easy date to remember ;)

Of course there are still things that need to be done, and plenty of new projects that are still under development, but that's always going to be the case - a finished mud is a stagnant mud, after all.

God Wars II is a combat-focused mud with a dark fantasy setting, where players take on the role of supernatural godlike beings. It uses true coordinates instead of rooms, and a manual combat system that requires simultaneous control of multiple body parts.

The address is godwars2.org 3000

Click to visit the website.

Click to visit the Mud/Web Interface.

Click to view the weekly progress reports going back to 2002.

There is also a , although this part is still a work in progress.

Here are some screenshots of the plugin in action - click each image to enlarge it to full size:

Having shapechanged into the form of a wolf, I stalk someone through Glyphstone Village:

Running between the giant ant hills can be risky business, but I pause briefly to take a look at my dynamically generated character description:

Not the smartest move...after transforming into a cloud of bats, I fly through the crater hunting fire elementals:

I'm only allowed three images, so the last couple will just be links: