The Ruins of Cawdor

The Ruins of Cawdor
Developer(s)	Ybarra Productions Sierra On-Line
Publisher(s)	Sierra On-Line
Platform(s)	MS-DOS Windows 3.1 Windows 95
Release date(s)	1995 (Incl. with INN)
Genre(s)	MUD RPG
Mode(s)	Single player Multiplayer

The Ruins of Cawdor was the last of three graphical MUDs for the online community The Sierra Network, which later became The ImagiNation Network. It was designed by Richard Aronson (author of the widely reprinted RPG humor story Eric and the Dread Gazebo), and based loosely on Macbeth.

The game was released in 1995, and it was the third one in the series, preceded by The Shadow of Yserbius in 1992 and The Fates of Twinion in 1993. Only The Shadow of Yserbius and The Fates of Twinion were released in offline versions that could be played without an internet connection.

The Ruins of Cawdor has been patched to allow for offline play.

External links

Distribution site for offline patched game

MUDs

Major branches	AberMUD DikuMUD LPMud MU*

Minor branches, codebases	CD CircleMUD CoffeeMUD ColdMUD CoolMUD Copper DGD EnvyMUD FluffOS GodWars Merc Mordor MudOS MUSH NUTS ROM Sequent SMAUG Talker TinyMUD TinyMUCK BBS MUDs – Fazuul Kyrandia MajorMUD Quest for Magic Scepter of Goth

Programming languages	ColdC LPC MPI MOO MUDDL Mudlle MUF SWLPC

Mudlibs	Ain Soph Mudlib CDlib Discworld Mudlib Lima Mudlib LPUniversity Mudlib MorgenGrauen Mudlib Nightmare Mudlib TMI Mudlib

Protocols	InterMUD MCCP MXP

Clients	Comparison of MUD clients MUSHclient TinTin++ TinyFugue zMUD

Concepts, terminology	Alternate character Avatar Avatar customization Bartle Test Buff Camping Computer game bot Consider Cybersex God Gold farming Gold sink Griefer Grinding Hack and slash Immortal Implementer Kill stealing Lag Looting Mob / Monster MUD client Mudlib Mudflation Nerf Online creation Online wedding Persistent world Player character Player versus environment Player versus player / Playerkilling Powerleveling Quest Remort Rent Spam Spawning spod Social verbs Syntax guessing Tank Twinking Virtual good Wizard Zone / Area

History	List of MUDs MUD trees "A Rape in Cyberspace" "A Story About a Tree"

Publications	Designing Virtual Worlds Imaginary Realities Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet Terra Nova A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Companies, organizations	Areae Iron Realms Entertainment Jagex Lysator Kesmai The Mud Connector Mythic Entertainment Plaintext Players Simutronics Skotos

People	Alan Cox Aleksi Asikainen Amy S. Bruckman Andrew Gower Ben Laurie Brad McQuaid Brian Green Bruce Woodcock Cat Rambo Chip Morningstar Christopher Howard Wolf Dr. Cat Edward Castronova Elonka Dunin Espen J. Aarseth Greg Stein J. Todd Coleman James Aspnes Jason Scott Sadofsky Jeremy Elson John Viega Joi Ito Judy Malloy Julian Dibbell Kelton Flinn Lars Pensjö Lennart Augustsson Lisbeth Klastrup Mark Jacobs Matt Mihaly Michael Lawrie Michael Seifert Mizuko Ito Nick Yee Noah Wardrip-Fruin Paul Barnett Pavel Curtis Randy Farmer Rich Salz Rich Skrenta Richard Bartle Roy Trubshaw Sherry Turkle Stephanie Shaver Steve Yegge T. L. Taylor Wes Platt

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