Got MUD?

In today's gaming circles the driving force behind the technology which the designers use to create worlds to captivate the minds of millions is the sheer breathtaking scenery provided. Every year the required specifications to play a game at its fullest graphical potential go up. Every company out there is progressively seeking to provide the next best of the generation, and the only way to keep ahead of the competition is to keep driving for the best graphical performance we can possibly achieve with the current technology. Every year we see new graphics cards on the market, pushing better and smoother performance than the last. And with the graphical side of games being pushed to their utmost limits with games such as Everquest 2 and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes where you get this message when trying to set the game to maximum settings: "Performance Warning: Extreme Quality makes use of visual settings that have an EXTREME performance impact. This setting will not likely be playable on even the highest-end software that exists....", we sometimes find the same games which look so good to the naked eye lacking the very essence of what makes games truly fun and enjoyable: imaginative immersion.

But in this modern age of digital photography, complex and dynamic computer generated animations and graphics, quantum physics and Massively Multiplayer On-line Games, there remains one little treasured artifact near and dear to the hearts of the gamer who still enjoy "getting away from it all" and escaping into the virtual world (or even worlds) of pure imagination where the graphics of the game reside within your own mind.

The Multi-User Dungeon commonly referred to as a MUD.