14 days till the deadline for the current online text gaming code challenge - March 27, 2007.

This challenge makes use of the prior Card & Deck challenge. The challenge is to create card games within your mud.

Challenge Title: Card Game Framework and AI Play

The Challenge: Build a series of functions or classes that will allow users to play a card game with each other, or with an artificial interface. The software should be expandable enough to allow for multiple card games using your code. ( blackjack, poker, spades, solitaire, etc )



There are some great prizes for this challenge: MudMagic is providing a 500.00 USD check, 1 year paid hosting ( 300.00 USD valued ) and MushClient is providing a free release! There are some in-game benefits available too from our Game List administrators.

The winner will be announced at the semi-annual FidoCon Event March 30th, 2007.


Thank you to all the developers that are participating.

Tommorow evening is the deadline date for entries for this years code challenge contest.

Thank you to all the developers that are participating.

And the winner for this years code challenge is:

KaVir! Congratulations to this returning winner of the online text gaming code challenge! KaVir continues to show his expertise in the card game arena by returning to win the top prize for his Card Game entry. A hearty thanks to this developer for providing the text gaming community with an outstanding piece of work that expands further the text gaming enjoyment.

There are currently no challenges in the buffer. MudMagic needs your input for the next challenge - what would you as a developer of online text gaming like to see? ( interaction with IM'ing? , protocol procedures, specific snippet development, etc.. )

Once more congratulations to KaVir, his entry is now available for download at:

*LOL* I _like_ that. Similiar to the stances that players take up in fighting, users can set poker faces. Pretty interesting =) That'd probably be a small challenge though. I'm going to push this contest to a yearly event - so it should be something that can be designed and worked on over the course of a year.

I didn't know there was a mud programmer of the year, but MudMagic will definately put the best programmers forward with this yearly challenge. Elanthis has given some awesome ideas for the challenge ( I'm still working on deciphering them ). Thanks for the idea on the challenge Scandum!