An Introduction to HoloMuck
HoloMuck is an online multi-user game. It's sort of like a text adventure computer game (like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or Zork) except that there are other people who are walking around with you. You may also build parts of the game world yourself. HoloMuck has a history dating back to February, 1992, starting as a closed muck on a DECstation in central Maine, evolving into a public MUCK with a following based on Callahan's, Pern and FluxMUCK, and has now become the largest daemonmuck-based server on the Internet. It is currently hosted on a Dell PowerEdge 1650 server in north central Arkansas.HoloMuck has players from places as diverse as Russia, Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Australia, South America and the South Pole. Unlike some other online games, which tend to be overly hack-and-slash oriented, HoloMuck's focus is purely social. Although people can and do "role-play," folks are encouraged to just be themselves.
If you know how to use tinyfugue or some other client program, the address is now holomuck.org 5757. If you don't know what to do, you can simply read the file Start Here, which explains the bare essential commands of HoloMuck. Then you can click here to connect using your default telnet client.
If you'd like to connect via your web browser, there is a Java-based client available through this web page. Simply click on the terminal window screen below and enjoy!
HoloMuck's Many Attractions
Some of the things you can find on HoloMuck are:- Friendly folks
- The Mirror Image Bar game rooms
- Callahan's Place
- Wench Works
- The (actually flowing) Amirthi River
- The (actually working) Tanstaafl Subway
- Fantasy regions (Narnia, Snark Forest, Tilbardin Island, etc)
- A space combat simulator
- An amusement park
- Much, much more...
Players Currently Online
Player Name On For Idle Doing Krissy 10:57 20s Eventual world domination Jeek 17:58 17h Putting the moves on his imaginary friend Zog 4d16:36 1m59 Ferrying Jaeger 5d04:18 5d04 We're a Firework! Our time to SHINE! Jaeger 5d04:18 5d04 We're a Firework! Our time to SHINE! Mouse 20d10h 7h27 Pondering Rodents of Present and Future doomsey 27d08h 13d staring at the ceiling PakRat 27d14h 9h02 Being a cute 'lil rat ,-(pq)@> Sjade 27d14h 12d Not much of anything 9 players, 7 sleeping. |
