MusicMUD

MusicMUD is the engine of the Cryosphere. It is presented here as a source release, with an example game world. It's written predominantly in C++ with lua for scripting.

We last did a mainline public release in 2003, and the presently available version is a patch made in 2025 to build under modern compilers, which is here for historic interest. We caution to use it at your own risk.

It's licenced under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2, or at your option any later version. Note: we do not consider a game world written for musicmud, or code written in lua to interface with it, a derivative work of musicmud.

• Download 2.1.6c here - sha256 hash is b4d487cd286b29f4ea9f6ef38e75badf5dce92f5b94b9bc01d03088a787e39bd
• Some very patchy getting started docs
• Building Tutorial (incomplete)
• Questions here

Credits

Code by Dale Baldwin, Abigail Brady, Stuart Brady, Ruan Kendall, Paul Lettington, Gareth Oliver.

Testing and other help by Andrew Anderson, Ian Dundore, Graham Evans, Caroline Ford, Daniel Hunter, Martin Lester, Tim Ridgen, Samantha Thomas, and Alex Turner.