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GroovyMud was a forey into the interactions between the Groovy language and Java. It is a fully-fledged mud, implemented (badly) - but it wasn't about being correct it was about learning the limitations of myself and the Groovy/Java language.

It probably doesn't even compile any more, but it was fun :)

What is a MUD?

A MUD is short for Multi User Dungeon, and is (usually) text based. Users require a telnet connection to interact with the MUD, and issue text commands like look, north, get foo from bar etc.

For further information about what MUDs are try here and for playable muds try here.

Why is it only one Git commit, what happened?

Originally the code was hosted somewhere that used subversion (I think it was googlecode). That site shut down a while ago, and to preserve my code I ported it here. There's also a rewrite I stared on 0.2, but that's not complete in any way.

How can I run it?

I forget, I have no idea how to set it up again and no interest in documenting it here ;) Kudos if you can figure it out, and post instructions. The PR would be welcome.