Lulu's Java MUD is a sandbox for me to:

• Prove to myself that I can write my own MUD
• Gain experience with Java (no pun intended)
• Provide a base MUD for others to run (once it's farther along) or experiment with
• Provide a base MUD for me to experiment with and implement features that I think are neat
  
  • Slot-based inventory
  • Enemy specific attack profiles
  • Organic "gossip" communication amongst AI elements
  • Simple economic features like supply and demand
  • Mapping from sight and memory combined
    • influenced by the player's "memory" attribute
    • influenced by the player's mapping ability
    • influenced by how often a player has entered a room (enforces the connection to other rooms in memory). This would mean that over time you would no longer need a map for an area.
    • Possibility for random areas caused by erroneous memories. :)
  • Ability to write out maps to give to other players
  • Everything is a weapon (think "Undead Rising")
  • Weather and its affects
  • Enemies that retreat
  • Pluggable elements (e.g. commands, maps, items, etc.)
  • In-game room creation/editing/deletion
  • Portals (as opposed to direction based room connections)

Lulu's JMud is a MUD server written in Java that handles telnet connections. The server uses Java NIO for network connections and is multi-threaded. There are no colours implemented yet, altough that would be nice. :)

JMud employs a MySQL database for data persistence. All communication with the database is done through stored procedures using the MySQL ConnectorJ drivers.

JMud uses a "room" model and is not grid-based; any room can be linked to any other room.

Existing Features

• In game dynamic map print-outs based on player's memory and visible adjacent "rooms"
• Slot-based inventory with race-based slots
• 10-way movement (8 compass directions + up,down)
• Multi-threaded
• Java NIO for network connections
• MUD commands follow GoF Command pattern
• MySQL Database for persistence
• Data access through stored procedures
• Chat (same room only, so far)
• Inventory command
• Player leaving/entering room notifications
  (e.g. "<player> went <direction>")

Sourceforge project page
MudCartographer
BitmapToHTML

To make a comment, criticism or suggestion, or to request (a modest amount of) support, fire me a gmail@cwmaguire.