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Main Server Internet

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:43:51 +0000

There's an issue with the Main server's modem, I have a Comcast technician scheduled for Tuesday, unfortunately this was the earliest time I was able to get one scheduled. The issue occurred on 06/03/2012. I have tried diagnosing the issue however the issue appears to be on Comcast's end. I apologize for any delay you may experience while playing on the server. It's up, but not 100%.

-Rekwan

Website is fixed!

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:49:32 +0000

The Dead and Walking website is now fixed. Please enjoy. =)

http://snyp.net

Handling Mass-Amount of Roaming NPC's

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:55:11 +0000

What is the best way of handling a large amount (500+) of NPC's that wander around, looking to attack a player or an object (windows, doors, etc)?

Thanks,

Rekwan

Nine years of BYOND Gaming

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:37:24 +0000

It's 2:48 AM here in California. I woke up, got out of bed, made sure my girlfriend was fully covered with blankets, and walked downstairs to my dining room where I had last left my laptop. This laptop is fairly new and has been primarily used for the development of one of my games, a zombie RPG known as Dead and Walking. I can hear the gentle sound of my laptop humming and the background music of my game. Everything sounds as it should, everything is occurring as I expect it to.

I can't help but think, "Why is it that I continue to come to this blue and gold website?" Of all sites to spend my time on, why this one? As these thoughts cross my mind in real-time (They are real-time to me) and my fingers hit the keys on my keyboard, I recall my earlier days, prior to discovering BYOND in 2001. I recall the games I was once most fond of, the games that had much detail in text yet lacked in graphics, that's right, I'm talking about MUD's.

MUD's are texted based multiplayer online roleplaying games and I've played every variation from Star Wars to classic Dungeons and Dragons-esque games. I can still remember typing "cast 'magic missile' imp". That's right, you had to type out every single command, and I loved it. The game was very detailed. In most muds, every object could be interacted with. Sure there were no real graphics aside from the ASCII-drawn sort, but the detail was there. The MUD community was very popular on such sites as mudconnector.com or mudmagic.com. Many codebases were released, allowing newbie coders like myself to get one up and running using a Unix Shell Account that some mud hosting sites provided for free. The developers on the forums were more than happy to help you get started.

I felt a strong bond with many of the other developers and players. Some of those involved in the community were accountants, college students, high school students, programmers, delivery boys/girls; there was such a huge variety of people and yet they were all brought together for the love of mudding and roleplaying in a gaming world that only required a dial-up connection and the Windows telnet client. Pretty simple, huh?

I guess when I found BYOND, I found something new yet old. Here I was in 8th grade, barely stumbling upon what appeared to be a newly developed gaming community of both gamers and developers. Make my own graphical multiplayer roleplaying game? No way. But yes, it was there, it was all there, and I decided there and then that BYOND would be my new home.

To be continued..

NPC's take damage when standing in fire?

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:15:59 +0000

I can't figure out how to make it so NPC's take damage per second while standing in fire, anyone know?

Godwars Mud on Byond??

Sun, 29 May 2005 17:29:07 +0000

Hello, I have a Godwars Mud (Multi User Domain) at rekmud.wolfpaw.net, port 5000. I was wondering how I would be able to setup a server so that when players were to connect to my Byond game, it would run and use DreamSeeker as a telnet client to connect to rekmud.wolfpaw.net:5000 or possibly load a telnet client to connect to that server/port.

Thank you.

How do you host games on Linux?

Sun, 13 Oct 2002 23:34:33 +0000

I have a linux shell account that I currently use to host text based RPG's online, (MUDS). If it's possible, how do I host byond games through my linux shell account?