[HN Gopher] A simple MUD server in Python which can be run on a ...
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       A simple MUD server in Python which can be run on a Raspberry Pi
        
       Author : raytopia
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2024-02-24 18:40 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | jgalt212 wrote:
       | MUDs would work great inside WhatsApp.
        
         | AJ007 wrote:
         | The complete opposite of Raspberry Pi, but I predict that one
         | result of generative AI models is we will end up with over 1
         | million concurrent players on MUDs.
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         | #1 Dramatic simplification of navigation and actions, making
         | them accessible for new users
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         | #2 Significantly better role-playing enabled through NPC
         | characters
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         | #3 Access & visualization medium by choice: text,
         | narration/voice, image, video, 3D
         | 
         | If I had the free time this is what I would work on now. I've
         | messed around with LLM RPGs, but the big piece is there needs
         | to be a stored structure to get around the context model
         | issues, or at minimum reduce costs and speed up use since we
         | now have huge context models.
        
           | import_awesome wrote:
           | I have half a MUD that uses TTS and speech-to-text as the
           | interface with LLMs generating the content and a database
           | keeping the context. It works surprisingly well.
        
       | bee_rider wrote:
       | I wonder what the reason for calling out the fact that it could
       | be run on a Pi is. MUDs are not new, of course, so I guess
       | they've been run on some very weak machines.
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       | But, the license file seems to be 11 years old... I guess those
       | older Pi's are pretty weak.
       | 
       | Still slightly confused but less so.
        
         | chmod775 wrote:
         | Even the oldest rPIs are more than tenthousand times more
         | powerful than what you'd need to run a MUD. Pretty much
         | anything that can run a telnet server users could do useful
         | stuff with could also run a MUD. This is written in python, so
         | it probably needs slightly more power than that though.
         | 
         | Most likely this is just a case of awkward English - the
         | intended use of the project is to be run on a rPI. It's not a
         | minimum requirement.
        
       | geerlingguy wrote:
       | For anyone else wondering what a MUD is, down in the README:
       | 
       | > MUD is short for Multi-User Dungeon. A MUD is a text-based
       | online role-playing game. MUDs were popular in the early 80s and
       | were the precursor to the graphical Massively-Multiplayer Online
       | Role-Playing Games we have today, like World of Warcraft.
       | http://www.mudconnect.com is a great site for learning more about
       | MUDs.
        
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