AberMUD, the next big Facebook application?

Pondering the popularity of the somewhat primitive and random “Pirates” application whilst cycling into work this morning I came to the conclusion that this system would be the (almost) ideal interface for a MUD.

Let’s have a look at the reasons:

  • Early MUDs such as AberMUD have a restricted command set, drop down selection boxes can handle these. There are only a few items per location also, so this could easily be handled in a web format.
  • MUDs are multi-user, so is a facebook application.
  • MUDs allow user-to-user interaction in  a game-space, ideal for all those slackers using facebook.

The problems I forsee, however, are these:

  • Getting full interactivity during fighting or users “say”ing things.
  • Finding the people with the right skills to do the coding. Goodness knows, I don’t have them. I’m guessing that you need someone with a good knowledge of efficient coding in PHP for the front-end and possibly the back-end as well. I’ve not looked at the facebook SDK.

So, any of you old guard want to port the original AberMUD to Web 2.0? *grin*

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