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Hello, my name is Andrew, and I've wanted to create my own MUD from scratch now for at least four-five years. A man who created his own told me that he did it by himself when he was my age just by learning by himself. I've been trying to learn programming by myself for close to five years now, and I have very limited knowledge but I know my way around Visual Basic 6.0 decently, or at least I think so. He told me that it'd be best if I looked out on the net for a codebase and played with that first, so I did so and I found one. It was called smaug and I had to have a Unix shell installed on this windows computer before I could run it, but I finally got it going. However the code was in C, which had me dismayed, as I was way too ignorant at the time to understand what was going on. Over a few months I changed small things like weather, built rooms, and all that stuff but I could never do the things I wanted, like getting rid of automated combat, add more levels, and all that stuff. I realize what I really need is some people who know what they are doing with programming, and if possible know what they are doing with muds. If there is anyone out there who could help me program a mud in Visual Basic 6.0 from scratch please speak up. Im thinking that it'd be a Server/Client type program. I have an awesome imagination and a great love for role playing games and fantasy. I know with the right people I could learn how to do anything they can do, and together we could build a great fantasy standalone MUD for Windows. If there is anyone who shares my love of fantasy, and programming this thread will probably be for you. I know I wouldn't have much to contribute to a development team but given time and if someone helped me out, I'd be a valuable asset to the creation and maintenance of this game. I am looking for a few people, even one person but to create a team to fashion a game called Heroes of Saragone. It'll be an epic role playing MUD for Windows that is in a standalone program. Please speak up here if at all interested I would like to get a converation going about all this stuff. I am hell bent determined to make an awesome roleplaying game, I've been wanting to do this forever and I would be willing do anything it takes almost to get this out of my head and onto the internet. Plus having a team of people with the same interest where we could get along and have fun while fashioning a world for our players to have fun in as well. I think it'd be awesome.