The popularity of MUDs of the Essex University tradition escalated in the USA during the 1980s when affordable personal computers with 300 to 2400 bit/s modems enabled role-players to log into multi-line Bulletin Board Systems and online service providers such as CompuServe. MUD, better known as Essex MUD and MUD1 in later years, ran on the Essex University network until late 1987. Trubshaw converted MUD to BCPL (the predecessor of C), before handing over development to Richard Bartle, a fellow student at Essex University, in 1980.
He named the game MUD ( Multi-User Dungeon), in tribute to the Dungeon variant of Zork, which Trubshaw had greatly enjoyed playing.
In 1978 Roy Trubshaw, a student at Essex University in the UK, started working on a multi-user adventure game in the MACRO-10 assembly language for a DEC PDP-10. Zork was ported under the name Dungeon to FORTRAN by a programmer working at DEC in 1978. Inspired by Adventure, a group of students at MIT, in the summer of 1977 wrote a game called Zork for the PDP-10. Adventure contained many D&D features and references, including a computer controlled dungeon master. The game was significantly expanded in 1976 by Don Woods. The MUD1 Slogan.Īdventure, created in 1975 by Will Crowther on a DEC PDP-10 computer, was the first widely played adventure game. You haven't lived until you've died in MUD.
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