How to make characters for a MUD

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Summoning @vaporware (Guncho’s creator) and @Dizzydonut (who is one of the persons with the most recent experience playing with Guncho, I think)

Some Links:

GitHub - aodendaal/guncho-wiki: Extract of Guncho Wiki from Web Archive

Guncho Helpworld

Just to let those interested in Guncho know: I’ve cannibalised the Guncho Wiki and used it as a source for a new realm called “Guncho Helpworld.” The reasoning behind this is that being a total newbie at MUDs when I started looking at Guncho, having the help wiki down was a major obstacle. So by creating this realm I’m attempting to make the Guncho site self-documenting. It’s got to be the most boring world ever: simply a single room with pages from the wiki made over into “posters” in an exhib…

Having trouble with Guncho

I was messing around with Guncho myself a little while ago, so I know a little bit, but not much! Guncho uses an older version of Inform than the current one, (version 5T18) so make sure that you’re using the reference docs for that version. The Guncho help wiki seems to be permanently down, but I’ve put up a new realm on Guncho, called “Guncho helpworld” with all of the wiki contents I could find. I’ve left the code for that realm public so that other people can not only read the source code…