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About Phantasmal

Phantasmal: pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm

Phantasm: 1. an apparition or specter. 2. a creation of the imagination or fancy. 3. an illusive likeness of something. 4. a mental image or representation of a real object.

The Phantasmal MUDLib is a DGD MUDLib, but no longer under active development. It's the best free MUDLib for DGD if you want to build most of your game for yourself, or if you want something unlike a traditional MUD. It has a project on SourceForge. Current and older releases can be downloaded there.

Phantasmal is my personal attempt to learn DGD, to contribute to DGD, and to put together a MUD server implementing certain things I think are cool. It isn't an attempt at a full-scale professional server. It certainly isn't an attempt at anything like the current crop of Diku derivatives. At the moment Phantasmal focuses on features that few other MUDLibs provide, though it skimps on some of the old standbys. For instance, it has an excellent help system, recompile-in-place, scripting, and some interesting input and output systems like UNQ and localization. However, it has no combat system at all.

Phantasmal's design is heavily influenced by Skotos, and more specifically by certain of their articles.

• See Phantasmal's current status.
• Download Phantasmal's source, either full-difficulty or bundled.
• Get started with some tutorials.
• Compare Phantasmal to other MUD Libraries.
• Set up a new Phantasmal-based MUD.
• Read bits of Phantasmal's history