Open Source Java Multi-User Dungeons (MUD) Games

Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time games, providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients like our MORPG Stendhal. Our engine Marauroa uses Java and SQL for hosting hundreds of players on a solo host. Stendhal is a fun friendly and free multiplayer online adventure game with a huge and rich world. With hundreds of NPCs and different quests, features like the Travel log and achievement system keep track of progress. Thousands of creatures are ready to fight, above and below ground, and as players level up they can compare themselves on a detailed stats website. The engine Marauroa provides a simple way of creating games on a portable and robust server architecture. Marauroa manages the client server communication and provides an object orientated view of the world for game developers. It handles database access in a transparent way to store player accounts, character progress and the state of the world

Crossfire is a free and open-source cooperative multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game. Set in a medieval fantasy world, it combines real-time action with traditional role-playing mechanics inspired by games such as Gauntlet, NetHack, Moria, and Angband. Players can choose from 14 races and 16 character classes, develop skills and magic, worship gods, complete quests, discover powerful artifacts, and explore thousands of interconnected maps filled with monsters, dungeons, cities, and adventures. Crossfire has been continuously developed since 1992 and remains an actively maintained community project.

Alternative Lineage 2 Game Server written in Java.

Times of Darkness (ToD) is a MUD. It's designed for the use of mods and all data is kept in XML files. That way it's possible to create an end time adventure as well as a medieval role-playing game. Well, there's much to do!

The Warlock Front End is written to allow Simutronics games to be played in Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. The primary focus at this time is on Dragonrealms, but other Simultronics games work to varying degrees.

XMUD is a MMORPG implementation in Java. Players can extend the system by creating new objects. The game provides a 3D engine written in Java3D, Persistent state management, synchronization and networking subsystems. Compatible with NWN modules.

L2Net is .net Alternative Lineage 2 Server and Client.

This game is a multi-player on-line persistent 3D game. Players can walk around a realistic city, shooting and entering cars. The aim of the game is to hunt down and kill the enemy covertly. It's a remake of Turbo Esprit, and not unlike GTA.

ELMVE is a server-client system which provids 3D virtual environments based on Java.

<p> A new cartography mapping tool was introduced with the new Everquest:Legacy of Ykesha(tm) extension in March'03. This tool allowed players to view, edit and create maps of most zones in the Everquest world. The EQ Map Viewer program is an open

A graphical isometric multiplayer virtual reality server in MUD-style. Rooms and server code can be changed online. At the moment, there is also an IRC link. Clients are available in Java and Python/C.

A simple, fast, java based text MUD client.

A Java Persistent Universe based on Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time. For now it's more an online virtual community than a MUD.

A text map creator for MUDs. Allows quick mapping using num pad keys for direction. Creates unicode text maps that can be posted, emailed or used to create maps that appear in the mud. Offers user the ability to mark rooms, extend hallways and add notes. There's now two versions of this and the newer Java version actually paints the map instead of creating it with text. If you're looking for a feature just email me; community feedback is really what drives me to work on this.

Momoko is a framework for developing distributed, multi-user, network-aware applications. It includes facilities for storing objects in a tree structure, a shell for manipulating the object database, orthogonal persistence, scripting support, and a trans

The goal of the project is to create a Java multi-user game server that can be easily extended and used for adding a multiplayer feature to games. User authentication, chat and interfaces for adding custom capabilities will be provided out of the box.

Multi-User Character Kingdom (MUCK) engine and client providing a first person view point 3D-world which can be created by users, and which uses a system to provide quick gameplay by slowly downloading Objects/Textures over time once in the world.

ACLocator is a localization program for Asheron's Call.

This is a framework to develop Contexts and Agents and a Container to run them. The Container lets each Agent interact with the Context and other Agents. The agents are deployed in jar files and each one runs in an exclusive sandbox.

AOJava: the java implementation of Argentum Online (http://sourceforge.net/projects/morgoao/). It's a 2D non-isometric MMORPG game. The goal is create a 100% compatible client & server of the original VB6/DirectX game.

ATITD Paint Mixer is a utility batch tool for the game "A Tale in the Desert" (www.atitd.com) that allows players to generate paint recipes for their ingredient reaction values.

This will be a server-client MMORPG similar to a mud (ASCII based). However, it will include sounds and graphic, but still enough ascii to leave the user enough freedom of imagination. Written in Java with full OOD, this will be multi-platform. Both Cl

Absylnia is a MUD Server Framework programmed entirely in Java. It is planned to support large amounts of extensiblity, as well as customization through user-editable settings.

A massively multiplayer (MMP) RPG written in Java. Ad Infinitum (or ADI) will use XML-RPC for remote communication and will be fully extensible/customizable through XML.

The next step in RPG development: more interaction possibilities with your environment, an ever changing world, the players can start own campaigns and every player experiences the world in a different way. Set in a near future world enriched with fantasy