Text Role Playing Games: Why Beta Is Better
By Zhade Barnet Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd. So if you’re anything like me, when you’re looking for a new MUD to play you tend to do one or more of the following: Choose the game with loads...
View ArticleOnline Text RPGs: Your Character's Reputation
By Christopher DavisJust like out of character actions affect you in real life, so do the actions of the character you role play affect the life of your character in a text-based role playing game....
View ArticleMUD Newbiehood: A How-To Guide
By Seth R. Cooke Newbiehood is a difficult time, especially for "true newbies," or those who have never played a MUD before. Even to an experienced player, a new text game can often be confusing or...
View ArticleText Adventure Games: The Fun of Being Free
By Chris Spencer Casual gamers need to face the facts; MMORPGs have taken over the world. They are big, they are immersive and they are drawing even the most unlikely people into their open-world...
View ArticleRole Playing Text Games: MUDs and Music
By Christopher K. Davis Music is a large part of life, and it can enhance almost everything... so it makes sense that it can affect your role playing game experience. A solid music selection can truly...
View ArticleOnline Text Games: Three Ways To Make Bank
By Seth R. Cooke One of the most interesting aspects of most online games is the economy. It takes gold (or whatever the currency may be) to buy equipment, supplies, and possibly upgrades or other...
View ArticleRole Playing MUDs: The Fallacy of "It's Just A Text Game"
By Lisa OhanianSomething I've heard a lot in my years of playing online text RPGs is the phrase, "it's only a game." Granted, it's usually used in an attempt to calm down a raging player on the other...
View ArticleHow the Visually Impaired Play MMORPGs
In the realms of entertainment, computers have come leaps and bounds. The old days were joysticks and joypads. Now with technology like the Nintendo Wii you stand and move the motion sensitive...
View ArticleIRE Asks: Who would win a divine rumble?
So this question has been burning in the back of our minds for a while, and we're hoping to settle the dispute once and for all. There are a lot of mythological Gods and Goddesses in the IRE games,...
View ArticleTop MUDs: The Journey of the Individual
Player-submitted articles do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Iron Realms, the company or its employees. Anyone who's played an MMO has a sense of the vast scale of the internet. Millions of...
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