AwakeMUD (also known as Awakened Worlds: Community Edition) is a Shadowrun MUD currently in beta testing. It can be reached at awakemud.com port 4000.
History[]
From the in-game `credits` file:
AwakeMUD began in the summer of 1994 as a pet project. After a wonderful hard drive crash, it was started again in December of 1994. It is based off of CircleMUD 3.0, and was started by Christopher J. Dickey until he gave up in early 1997. Since then, the mud has advanced incredibly through the work of Pook and Rift.
Toward the end of 1998, Awake 2050 (The mud this codebase was built from), lost its server due to situations that were beyond our power. The codebase just stuck on various hard drives and well, did nothing. Awake was believed by many to be dead for good. Rift and Pook went to college, and got on with their lives.
Fastjack and Dunkelzahn, two chummers from Awake 2050 were working on a secondary project called Beyond the Shadows: 2084. Dunkelzahn through Finn met Jerkweed, who offered server space for Beyond the Shadows. Fastjack and Dunk accepted, and then Dunk got brave and asked if he could put a second mud on the box. (awake.infomatrix.org) He was most gracious. Dunkelzahn did some searching to find Phrodo and Rift, who both had copies of Awake's then dusty codebase. By February 2nd 2000, Awake was back up and running.
Coders who have worked on this codebase after Christopher Dickey (Flynn) and Andrew Hynek (Rift) are as follows: Fastjack (mostly), Demise (who's work is documented under /doc/CHANGES.demise), Terra, Washu, Jerkweed (our host at awake.infomatrix.org), Shadowen, Che, and Dunkelzahn *a spec change here, an addition to a table there... I didn't actually write any code --Dunk*, and last but definately not least, Phrodo. (Who was also our host at one of our old servers, the old shadowrun.org [Not affiliated in any way with the current owners of shadowrun.org])
Also, last but not least TONS of credit goes to the wonderful people at the FASA corporation (yeah we know its dead now) for if it weren't for their creativity and ideas, Awake 2050, and its codebase, AwakeMUD would not exist.
The current iteration of AwakeMUD is the Community Edition, which forked from Che's MUD, which was formerly hosted at awakenedworlds.net. The CE fork began development on May 19, 2017, and was opened to the public on January 16th, 2021. It remains in active development.
World[]
The game is set in a cyberpunk-themed Seattle in 2064, portraying a hyper-capitalist society that has ceded large amounts of political power to megacorporations and their agents. The world extends to several satellite cities and areas, including Tacoma, Portland, Renton, as well as more distant locations including an island in the Caribbean.