What is the history of NPC Mud?

Question

Before we enter the boss room for Lord Retro we're greeted by NPC Mud. Can you please tell me the history of NPC Mud? I know the meaning behind the name is "MUD: You arrived in Tibia! The Multi-User Dungeon (c) 1997 CipSoft GmbH ..." But what is the story? I know I've heard this before :)

Answer 1

Hey, Shawtay! I need to reserach a little bit in order to try answering this. Couldn't find anything relating to NPC Mud per si, but found about the references.

As you may know, Tibia was created as a college project by the 4 GOD's and it was meant to be a multi-user dungeon RPG game (therefore M.U.D.)

The evolution to an MMO was developed with the growing popularity of the internet.

After looking for a while, I found this link explaining in details what exactly is a M.U.D., but, in resume:

1) Is a multi-user virtual world described entirely in text;

2) combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, interactive fiction, and online chat;

3) were a precursor of the MMORPG's;

4) they were not necessarily games, being used for purposes such as distance education or virtual conferences.

Hope this could help you <3

Comments

Thanks for the research, but I think there's more to the story too! Awaiting for more of your research, thank you!

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I assume the NPC MUD is related to Tibia being inspired by MUD type games and the concept being a "Graphical MUD". You can see Stephan's comment relating to Tibia and MUD at the following link:
https://game-news24.com/2022/01/15/the-game-archaeologist-talking-to-25-year-old-tibia-with-cipsoft-the-game-archaeologist/

"Tibia has been online since the 7th of January 1997. It’s thus one of the first MMORPGs. This time, the so-called Multi User Dungeons, were online game-playing games, so we wanted to do it with graphics. That’s why the concept of the game was GMUD or Graphical MUD."