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Kesmai MUD
- noun The incarnation of
MUD2 which ran on the Kesmai Aries gaming
network from 1993 to 1997.
Historical note: having seen what MUD2 had done to
"Island of Kesmai" on NVN, Kesmai asked to put
it on their nascent Aries system. Unfortunately, its being
nascent, their software wasn't entirely functional. Despite
dire warnings that we hadn't flood-tested the game, they
opened it up to the eager GEnie gaming fraternity in what
turned out to be the most disastrous launch in MUD2's
history. The players saw that it crashed; they went away, and
they didn't come back. The fact that the game was available on
Delphi and CRIS too meant we did get some newbies eventually,
and, thankfully, there were a few members of the GEnie
community who gave us a second chance. There were other problems, though.
It was so hard to update the game's software (using some weird
mechanism of one-time-pad passwords and 3 different firewalls)
that new versions did not arrive as quickly as they did on other
incarnations, if at all. That said, the game did manage to reach the
necessary critical mass of players to ensure its survival,
whereupon Kesmai closed it down (and all its other "DOS" games(!))
with a whole day's warning.
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