The PSP Gets MUD on it
So an interesting little application has surfaced and it goes by the name of PSPMUD. If you don’t know what a MUD is I’ll give you a quick refresher course, they are essentially stripped down versions of an MMORPG like World of Warcraft or EVE Online. MUDs were the first online RPGs and the first recognizable MUD was released in 1978. MUDs are normally text only programs but some programmers use keyboard characters to form pictures, once in the MUD a user can generally create a character choosing from a wide variety of classes, skills, jobs, and races. Most MUDs have a newbie area that will teach you the ropes of playing the particular MUD and get you familiar with navigating through the world.
Almost all MUDs share this formula: the player can move in the 8 directions on a compass, the player can climb, pick things up, equip items, train skills, and battle enemies. MUDs vary widely in topics from generic medieval fantasy to aliens vs predator to mech wars. With the introduction of PSPMUD you can now experience the text based excitement from anywhere with a wi-fi connection, the only problem? WOW its going to take a long time to input text on the PSP, which has me predicting this application will be a whole lot more popular when the PSP keyboard manifests it’s self on store shelves. With this App the controls are simple, the D pad acts as the North South East and West directions, square scrolls text and circle enters what you have typed. You can pick up this very cool new homebrew app right here. Have fun out there, and don’t forget to check out Thy Dungeonman!
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