Cortex public information: a small multiplayer text game is open for testing.
Paroxysm is a free, text-only, Diku-based MUD for adults only (18+). It is in early alpha, so expect rough edges, unfinished areas and a small player base.
Setting: World War II ended with a portal to Hell, and the Cortex world government now manages the supernatural. Archetypes: vampire, werewolf, faeborn, demonborn, angelborn, demigod. Mature themes are part of the game; this post is deliberately kept clean.
There is no web client. You connect with a MUD client or telnet:
- mud.paroxysmrpg.com, port 3000
- Website: https://paroxysmrpg.com/
- Discord: https://discord.gg/Hkx8rcj4k6
What we would like from this community: players who like text games, and other MUD and game developers who are willing to say what looks wrong from the outside.
The Paroxysm team
New: take the Cortex Citizen Assessment, a 10-question in-world personality test: https://paroxysmrpg.com/assessment/
For anyone without experience with MUDs, having ~20 regular players already counts as a big success. Don’t expect to find any with more than 50 active at any given time.
The website’s text is tiny for no reason
OP, have you checked mudslinger? It can let people play from their browser https://github.com/rabidt/mudslinger
Alternatively, there’s https://web.mudlet.org/