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MUD

(MultiUser Dungeon, MultiUser Dimension, MultiUser Dialogue) Interactive games played by several people at a time on the Internet. Originally dungeons and dragon games with demons, elves and magicians, MUDs have been created for science fiction themes, cartoon characters and other types of games. MUDs have also evolved into 3D virtual reality sites.

There are many variations and permutations of MUDs. MOOs are object-oriented MUDs, and MUSEs (Multiuser Shared Environments) are generally designed for elementary and secondary students. A MUSH (MultiUser Shared Hallucination) allows new rooms and situations to be created. A MUCK (MultiUser Chat Kingdom) is a text-based MUD system similar to MUSH, and there is yet another MUCK (MultiUser Construction Kit), heavy on fantasy and myth. See avatar and VRML.

mud
a fine-grained soft wet deposit that occurs on the ground after rain, at the bottom of ponds, lakes, etc.
mud [məd]
(engineering)
slime
(geology)
An unindurated mixture of clay and silt with water; it is slimy with a consistency varying from that of a semifluid to that of a soft and plastic sediment.
(materials)
drilling mud
(petrology)
The silt plus clay portion of a sedimentary rock.
(games)MUD - Multi-User Dimension or "Multi-User Domain". Originally "Multi-User Dungeon".


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She points out that in MUDs (Multiuser dungeons, based on the role-playing game "Dungeons and Dragons"; Bruckman, 1996), characters may not be of any fixed gender, but may evolve, mutate, or morph over time at the whim of their creator.
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