Hennepin

Hennepin is the world's first PHP mud. I wrote it as if it were an entry for the 16k MUD Competition because I thought it'd be fun to scrunch it way down. It only uses 7,820b, so there's plenty of room to add more features like items.

In the stealth-based gameplay, you are a hacker in a network of computers and routing that's both autogenerated and player-built. You advance by building up and protecting your own network and hacking through other networks.

Features:

• Area and room world, live-extended and -edited
• Persistence for players and the world
• Player stats: HP, Vitality, Strength, Stealth, and Perception
• Simple combat with attack, defend, hide, and regen
• Social commands like say, emote, and who
• Toggleable ANSI color with escape codes
• Commands can be recoded and reloaded live

During development the gameplay was actually about players building areas for each other to explore and conquer, but I couldn't figure out a nice way to somehow balance an area's payout vs. maintenence. So there's a largely different set of commands and gameplay living in the bowels of my svn repository.