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MUD game programming

Started by brandonman Mar 6, 2008 at 8:30 PM 9 replies 1.7k views

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Mar 6, 2008 at 8:30 PM

Hey everyone, the people at the Networking forum will remember me from a few days ago with my horridness with network code ;) I decided to go and search for the "MUD game Programming" book, but it appears the only american copy is at least $100 USD on the american amazon site. I checked on the UK amazon, and it was around 80, and on the canadian one, it was around 50. (I converted these to USD by the way) I don't want to HAVE to buy from outside the US, considering the shipping is probably higher, but if neccesary, I will. The book was not on the Course PTR site either... So, does anyone know where I could find this book? Thanks in advance.

eedok

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eedok

Mar 6, 2008 at 8:47 PM

I found it in a discount bin at my local drug store

Toolmaker

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Toolmaker

Mar 7, 2008 at 2:45 AM

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I found it in a discount bin at my local drug store

Poor Ron...

eedok

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eedok

Mar 7, 2008 at 9:08 AM

Not too many domain specific computer books have a shelf life greater than a year

Machaira

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Machaira

Mar 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM

What about another book? This one is cheap.

Rydinare

Mar 7, 2008 at 10:59 AM

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What about another book? This one is cheap.

I have both books at home. Secrets of the Mud Wizards is an interesting read, but is extremely outdated.

Mud Game Programming is a good book, but really more for the techniques than the actual code, since it is using C++, and I might advise that it would be easier picking a higher level language like Java, C#, or even Python or Ruby to write a Mud, at this point.

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necreia

Mar 7, 2008 at 2:07 PM

Not an answer to exactly what you asked, but: Have you checked out TigerMUD? It's an open source MUD written in C#. It runs pretty well, and maybe you can pick it apart and try to look at the moving parts.

v0dKA

Mar 7, 2008 at 8:17 PM

I have the book. I was really hoping to read it, but I never got around to it, and it doesn't look like I ever will. If you have not decided on another book, I wouldn't mind shipping it to you. Just PM me.

brandonman

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brandonman

Mar 7, 2008 at 8:34 PM

I'll talk to you if I can't find it anywhere, but giving out my address to random people isn't on the top of my todo list. If I have no options, I'll get in contact.

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Mithrandir

Mar 10, 2008 at 8:42 AM

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Original post by Rydinare
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Original post by Machaira
What about another book? This one is cheap.

I have both books at home. Secrets of the Mud Wizards is an interesting read, but is extremely outdated.

Mud Game Programming is a good book, but really more for the techniques than the actual code, since it is using C++, and I might advise that it would be easier picking a higher level language like Java, C#, or even Python or Ruby to write a Mud, at this point.

I agree. I didn't learn about Python until I was halfway done with the book, and at that point I wished I could have done the entire thing in Python.

I didn't learn C# until after I wrote the book, and now I wish I just wrote the whole damn thing in C#.

Oh well. Live and learn.

Rydinare

Mar 10, 2008 at 8:48 AM

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Original post by Rydinare
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Original post by Machaira
What about another book? This one is cheap.

I have both books at home. Secrets of the Mud Wizards is an interesting read, but is extremely outdated.

Mud Game Programming is a good book, but really more for the techniques than the actual code, since it is using C++, and I might advise that it would be easier picking a higher level language like Java, C#, or even Python or Ruby to write a Mud, at this point.

I agree. I didn't learn about Python until I was halfway done with the book, and at that point I wished I could have done the entire thing in Python.

I didn't learn C# until after I wrote the book, and now I wish I just wrote the whole damn thing in C#.

Oh well. Live and learn.

I hear you on that. I just started playing with C# this week and I can definitely see how it has a lot of improvements over C++ to make your life easier. This was after not touching C# for years because of hearing all of the bad things about C# and the .Net framework. Hmm...

Anyway, back to the topic, I definitely enjoyed Mud Game Programming. My complements to the author of that book. [smile]

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