Jul 1, 2019

The Grapevine Gazette - Issue #4

By Eric • Issue #4 • View online

Welcome to the fourth issue of the Grapevine Gazette.

Grapevine celebrates its first anniversary. It’s 1 year old! Listen to our celebration episode on Titans of Text to hear more about the history and future of the platform.

If you run a game and have updates or upcoming events send them in for inclusion. And don’t forget to sign your game up for Grapevine!

Connect with Us

Join us over at the MUD Coders Guild on Slack.

Let's MUD

This month’s /r/MUD Let’s MUD is The Two Towers MUD! Join in on the fun by playing the weekend of July 5 - 7.

Find out more on the Reddit post.

Podcasts

Titans of Text

Titans of Text interviewed Star Conquest about accessibility, Austin from WoTMUD, and did a special episode about the one year anniversary of Grapevine!

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Updates from the Grapevine

Grapevine - Anniversary Episode

Grapevine is 1 year old! Celebrate by listening to the Titans of Text anniversary episode.

Covenant MUD - June 2019

Development continues on the Tierceron Construction Set, starting on creating and managing Zones.

Evennia - 0.9 Released

The latest version of Evennia is out, this time dropping support for Python 2 and requiring Python 3.7. Grapevine chat support is also included!

Mudlet - Translations, 3.21 Released

Mudlet posted an update after 1 year of working on translations, and also put out a new version.

Starmourn - Development Updates, New Dikamazi, Honors and Titles

Starmourn has a brand new area, New Dikamazi, explore this new colony. There is also new economy changes coming down the pipeline soon.

Articles

A Love Letter to MUDs

Really, at its heart, this post is a simple love letter to MUDs. It may wax poetic, philosophical, or overly sentimental, but at the root of this is my simple intention to remember for myself (and hopefully remind others) that MUDs are worthwhile. I refer…

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On Winemaking, 3 - SwiftAusterity - Medium

I’ve been playing a bit of City of Heroes. Probably more than a bit. Fine, I’m on the third page of alts already. I remember when the first graphical MMORPGs started going offline. It was quite…

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Upcoming Events

There are currently no upcoming events listed on Grapevine. If you are the admin of a game, don’t forget you can add them from the game management page. Any upcoming events will make next month’s newsletter!

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