Mavolence – A H7 Mud & an intro to Mudding.

January 7, 2009 at 2:31 pm · Filed under h7, Malevolence, mud, review

Hi all.

I am on a roll this morning. I noticed that the one link that I had, that wasn’t writing related, and didn’t have a review was to the Mud (Multi-User-dementions) that I play on a semi-regular basis. I figured that there are lots of you out there right now scratching your head and going “What’s a mud?”

Here is the answer, and my description of Malevolence for you.

Mudding (link opens to a wiki definition) is basically text based Role Playing – Dungeons and Dragons style. You see, World of War craft, Guild Wars, and all those other online games had to start somewhere – and they did. With text-based gameplay. People wrote descriptions for rooms, monsters and quests, and they plugged it all into some code, and away the games run. You can find more descriptive explinations of Muds at www.mudconnector.com, or even by googling them.

I just wanted to put Malev on my link list because I’ve had a 10 plus year love affair with the game. Malv (as the regulars call it) is a smaller game, but it has a strong place in the player’s affections. It was once run by a trio of creators – Shwaine, Darktoast and Xanax, but is now run by Shwaine. According to the Malevolence website it is “

Malevolence began running in November of 1995 and has continued to evolve and grow to this day. Having recently aquired a new server and host, Malevolence is better than ever. Whether you are a new player or an old friend, you will always find lots of amazing stuff  as you enter our world.

Based on an extremely modified H7v2.08 mudlib, and running on an LDMud 3.2.11 driver, Malevolence runs with  excellent stability on the Slackware Linux platform.” Malev has various features and a review from The Mud Connector.com can be found here.

I love Malevolence for the small player base, the great monsters, and the fact that its my “home away from home.” If anyone ever logs in, look for either my creator character Cassandra, or my Players, Ryna or Bethie. (I have a vampire clan leader, and a paladin, that way I get to be both good and evil)

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