Hi!

I'd like to announce a new mud client, Mudlet. It's being made from scratch, designed to be fast, easy to use, and easy to script with - while also offering some very powerful features. In short, the best of all clients without the bugginess or complexities wink.gif (and we know what we're doing, too!)

The client will also feature some really nice things not found in existing clients - like Mud Styles, advanced scripting support (linear and multi-threaded approaches, along with support for many scripting languages such as Lua, Python, Perl, Ruby), built-in app store, and other nice stuff.

More information is available here (http://mudlet.org/about/).

Beta testing

The client isn't out yet, but you're welcome to sign up for the beta test notifications here (http://mudlet.org/download/). The beta will be open - so anyone who'd like to give it a try will be welcome to.

Ideas

Have an idea you'd like to see implemented in the client? Yours thoughts are welcome. Feel free to post all your stuff here: http://forums.mudlet.org/forum/fresh-ideas. We have many of our own, but new input is always useful.

Windows? Linux? Mac?

The client will definitely run natively on Windows and Linux. Macs - chances are looking good too, but no guarantees.

Cost?

Zero, zilch, nada. The client is free software and open source. Really! That also means you're welcome to contribute to making it better smile.gif

Technical stuff

The client is coded in C++, using Qt 4 as the gui toolkit. Lua, Python, Perl and Ruby will be the supported scripting languages at first - and more will be added as they're needed.

Forums

We got forums over here (http://forums.mudlet.org/), feel free to post stuff.


Comments? Questions?

interesting!

I'll try it when its ready!

Seconded.

Ok. There's a newsletter thing available on the download page (http://mudlet.org/download/), or if you're into the social network stuffs, mini-updates will be posted here (http://mudlet.org/social-networking/)

This actually looks kind of nice.

Not that I know anything about coding or clients.

Here's to hoping that my existing Lua system won't need a ton of modifications to work in Mudlet.

We'll work on trying to make it compatible or making a converter thing for people wanting to switch. Re-doing stuff sucks :-/

So, whats the angle? Why'd you make it? Just to do it? A fun project?

Because all current clients lack features. We're assembling everything from scratch into a nice program that works, and adding some new features that no other client has.

In regards to it being completely free - this is our contribution to free software (ie firefox, linux, and etc. which we use daily)

I wonder if you'll have tutorial / help files for all of the scripts, and if they'll be cross-compatible..

This seems like a really nice client! Can't wait to try it out!

Yep, there will be tutorials and help files for the client. But what do you mean about cross-compatibility? With what?

I'm not sure. I have this evil idea in my head of someone being able to write some of their system for a game in zScript, some of it in Lua, some of it in Perl...

Ah. Yeah, that'll work fine. Except no zScript (that's limited to zmud/cmud).

Was just an example! But it's good to know.

Saw this on the Imperian forums earlier. Looks very nice so far.

Omg are you Vadimuses?

Yah, he is. I remember a while back he sort of tried to port his Achaea nexus system here.

I remember seeing his Lusty autosipper, but I never tried it out. :S

-melt- Anything he makes is just pure awesome!