Mushclient Project Update – bigmap Lasher, July 1, 2008July 1, 2008 Small post, but this is worth sharing. Nick Gammon has written a ‘bigmap’ plugin to go with the default Mushclient install for Aardwolf. Others have done similar in other clients, but keep in mind this will be available in a single download and install to completely new players to the…
06/27 – Mud stat monitor, tags, new quests and goals. Lasher, June 27, 2008June 27, 2008 New Goals and Quests: There are new goals and tasks in Childs Play, Peaceful Giant Village, Hotel Orlando and Faerie Tales 2. These are generally more advanced than the goals so far (excluding the academy) and can require a lot more exploring to solve. Faerie Tales 2 in particular is…
Why Mushclient for the custom client work? Lasher, June 25, 2008June 25, 2008 The choice of MUD client for this project was always going to be a question and, sure enough, a few people have asked “Why Mushclient?” vs other clients. Usually, it is a cmud/zmud user asking the question so I’ll focus on that, but it really applies to any other client….
Aardwolf custom Mushclient Development Lasher, June 23, 2008June 23, 2008 Many of our players have come up with some great ideas to get new users to Aardwolf. However, there is no point going all out on getting completely new users to the website when they don’t know how to play when they get there. We have always struggled with being…
Finding a new web host / game host Lasher, June 21, 2008June 22, 2008 It’s time to find a new host. Our contract on the T1 expires in August. At the time we originally bought the T1 in 2003 the hosting situation was terrible. Mudservices had just gone under. We were at a point where standard server specs at the time struggled to keep…
Aardwolf Blog Introduction Lasher, June 20, 2008June 22, 2008 So why, after all these years, an Aardwolf blog? Several reasons. There is a huge amount of activity taking place building out the MUD right now. A lot of this activity is not worth announcing until finalized, but many people are interested in what we’re up to. A blog will…