WheelMUD is a modern Multiple User Domain (MUD) engine. WheelMUD provides a platform on which to build your own text-based MMO.
- Accessible to average hobbyist coders.
- Capitalize on an untapped market of MUD coders.
- Help coders develop job skills.
- Attractive, approachable code base.
- Stable.
- Performs well enough to be a viable platform for running even the most popular MUDs.
- Continuous improvement.
- Above all, Have Fun!
- Runs on Windows (at minimum).
- Development will be confined to modern, accessible languages such as C#.
- Utilize modern development environments, and other common job tools and development practices.
- High encapsulation. Strong separation of concerns.
- Highly testable code.
- Accessible to common .NET performance tooling and stress testing techniques.
- Foster active, engaging community. Ease of integration (for entire code-bases, content, and/or specific features/components) between MUDs built on the platform. Ease of content creation.
- The players aren't the only ones having fun!