MOO Server Software

Recommended: wRog’s LambdaMOO 1.9.x

For anyone looking to run a LambdaMOO server today, I recommend LambdaMOO. The 1.9.0 release (currently in alpha) represents significant modernization work and is a better starting point than the various 1.8.x branches, including my own. I plan to adopt it for Waterpoint eventually. It includes the XML parser described below as well as WAIFs, Unicode, and a bunch of fixes.

My extensions

I’ve written two LambdaMOO server extensions.

Software

Most of the software I’ve written is not open source.

Much of the open source code I’ve written or contributed significantly to is hosted on GitHub.

I also wrote some software around and within LambdaMOO.

What is LambdaMOO?

LambdaMOO is a MUD server. You can read more about it on the LambdaMOO server home page. It is essentially a programmable chat server. That simplifies things a bit since one could write non-chat networked applications on top of LambdaMOO. “MOO” is just a shorthand way to refer to LambdaMOO.

LambdaMOO is also the name of a MUD that uses the LambdaMOO server. LambdaMOO, the MUD is at lambda.moo.mud.org, but I am not involved in running it in any way. LambdaMOO is the oldest MUD that uses the LambdaMOO server.