The latter; it’s not multiplayer in the usual sense.
I believe it would be possible to put together a library that used the VM server functions to host a multiplayer-aware game. Doing that with adv3 would take a lot of effort.
I’m not sure what the plans are for the minimalist TADS 3 library, code-named “quicksilver”. If it ever sees a release, I plan to tackle a multiplayer version.
The language gives you server and client sockets, so you can implement multiplayer servers. The game world would then be hosted by the game running as a server, while players connect as clients.
You could write the clients in some other language if you wish, doesn’t have to be in TADS.
Edit: Of course doing this requires programming; adv3 doesn’t come with out-of-the-box support for it :mrgreen:
Apart from multiple players each in their own independent instance of a game current prerelease is also capable of hosting one game for cooperative playing by multiple players together. Although there is no interface for it yet, you can make a request to “/webui/guestConnect” and receive an url for guest to join. (Of course, this is not a real “multiplayer”.)
Sorry if I’m being obtuse or not looking in the right place, but what Git repo are you all pulling from?
I’ve been thinking a bit more about my own motivation. I suspect want I really want to do is use adv3 as the starting library in a MUD. It’s such a rich library (aside: are there any comparable libraries for conventional MUDs?). But I appreciate that it’s not really intended for multiplayer.