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Old 08-04-2010, 04:56 AM   #25
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Re: Developing from scratch

Well 10 years ago we had the - 18 barebones codebases written from scratch. But I'm not aware of any muds built on them, other than a very recent adaption of the winning entry that's being used to demo a new web client.

And even today, despite the availability of all those open source codebases, most of the new muds starting up choose to go with one of the older established codebases. Right now on TMC's "new muds" list there are:

3 LPMuds
13 DikuMUDs
16 TinyMUDs (15 if you don't include MOO)
3 CoffeeMUDs
3 Custom
4 Unknown

The presence of open source codebases doesn't change the fact that most up-and-coming mud owners already have a good idea of what sort of game they want to run...and it's usually just like the mud they used to play, except with their own "cool idea" that's going to make it ten times better.

Change takes time. You need to wait for a generation of new mudders to grow up on custom muds, and then use those as their measuring stick.
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