You are at the intersection of Main Street and Ohio Avenue, very near the western border of Tanstaafl County. Despite the contrivance of text MUDS, they have an avid following. Novices quickly learn the ropes. MUD and MOO software is easy to learn and offers helpful prompts. Once the MUDding skills are acquired, the process of play becomes transparent.
Players invest themselves in the process, filling in details and suspending disbelief.
Some users insist that the introduction of graphics would diminish rather than enhance MUDding. They stress that MUDding is a social rather than sensory experience. The MUD Environment Unlike the dynamic, continuous, visual spaces in most video games, the movement in the space of a text MUD is episodic. Often the spaces are separated from each other by directional links. Users rely on memory to recall nearby spaces.