Credits

## Arctic MUD

The original game idea, design, and concept of DikuMud (the precursor to Arctic) are thanks to Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, Hans Henrik Staerfeldt, Michael Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer. The base code that Arctic began with had additional contributions from Michael Curran, Ragnar Loenn, and Bill Wisner, and in the early days, Jhalavar (from Armageddon), Loki (from Silly), WhiteGold (from Epic), Geraden Domme (from Epic), Twilight (from Epic), and Riverwind contributed additional code. Some of that code is still in use today, in one form or another.

Arctic would like to give special mention to one of the legendary figures of DikuMUD: Jeff Stine, otherwise known as Abaddon from Adversary. Jeff supplied us with some useful code, but moreover inspired us to strive for a "better MUD". Adversary was one of the most stable and popular MUDs of its time. One of our goals was to strive for the same image that Adversary had.

Paladine was responsible for getting the Arctic ball rolling (early 1992), but he was soon no longer able to continue in that role. Lazarus and I (Fistandantilus) took over and oversaw creation for the game from that time (late 1992). Lazarus retired from this duty in the latter part of 1995 and I did so early in 1996. I then handed the reins to Flint and Arctic continues to evolve under his watchful eye. Incarnadine joined us late in the game (as a coder), but he has nevertheless made some significant contributions. He also provided us with a home at Berkeley when we went public the second time.

Many of the people listed in the infobox are ostensibly "creators", however they have actually had a much larger hand at shaping Arctic than the title "creator" merits. Additional creators of the Arctic world are (in no particular order): Tornado, Fuddle, Thuler, Soom, Elest, Ext, Enchant, Scription, and Gnob. For a more comprehensive list of all contributors see the section on creators below.

We would also like to thank the crew of beta testers who, through bug reports and ideas, helped make Arctic a game worth playing. There were many testers, so this list is probably incomplete: Blast, Chester, Cowboybob, Gizo, Khamul, Lionheart, Mozart, Seoman, Skye, Sparc, Storm, Sardon, and Vanyel.

Arctic is very thankful for all the sites that have provided us with a home. We spent a long time at Linfield College and would like to thank Gilean for that, as well as Elistan for introducing us to him. Arctic also spent time at Comtech which was pointed out to us by Emyrald. During our long stints in development we changed sites at least 5 times. We are thankful to the old administrators for allowing us to use their site(s) during that time.

We also enjoyed a long stay at the University of California, Berkeley campus, thanks to the Computer Science Undergraduate Association. We would like to thank Incarnadine for providing the home initially, and Thwack for his continued support when on-site when trouble came our way.

More recently, we have hosted the game on our own machine provided through donations by the implementors and proceeds from the Arctic T-Shirt fundraiser. We would like to thank Wired and Lazarus for allowing us to house our computer on their network.

Arctic's most recent and longest lasting home was a machine at Rutgers University. It was one machine - part of a little net that made up undertone.org. Many thanks go out to Scrappinak for providing the home for Arctic for so long. His support was essential in supporting the continued growth of the game.

Arctic is currently hosted on a machine run by Phred out of Dallas, Texas.

We hope you enjoy the game!

## Creators

The following is a list of some more creators that have contributed zones to Arctic. Please note that some zones have been majorly modified and are not listed since they were changed a little at a time by several people.

* Adepali
* Arack
* Arislan
* Ayeka
* Cale
* Cark
* Chemosh
* Conick
* Cosmo
* Crysania
* Dalion
* Denmar
* Draknor
* Edgar
* Einar
* Ext
* Fenmore
* Fuddle
* Galan
* Hekler
* Huma
* Jorquin
* Kael
* Kalak
* Kayla
* Layorick
* Leirin
* Magius
* Majere
* Miegog
* Mix
* Nebulas
* Ned
* Noryl
* Nuitari
* Oere
* Pelmen
* Pharoah
* Pyrkaige
* Qued
* Remi
* Reorx
* Rogosh
* Rough
* Sanjuro
* Siria
* Solinari
* Spackle
* Strathaar
* Styrene
* Takhisis
* Talus
* Terk
* Thavian
* Theoden
* Thorvald
* Thuler
* Tornado
* Tregar
* Umarth
* Urog
* Vader
* Valiar
* Viper
* Xena
* Xitobi
* Zivilyn