The time of Archmages will be an open-source MUD game.
Players can be connected to the game server using either a special client or through IRC or they can use a Web-interface. This means that a player can reach the server from virtually any platform.
Perl Multi-User Text Environment. A text-based network envionment akin to MUX, MUSH, MOO, etc. Written in Perl with a Postgres database back-end. The userinterface is designed to closely resemble MUX to ease player transition.