SpaceSimCentral

Hi all,Great to find forums like this talking about the space sims of yesterday and today. I wanted to share with you the project my team and I have been working on for the last couple months - Wing Commander: New Horizon MUSH. A MUSH, for those unfamiliar, is a text-based game (similar to a MUD) heavily focused on text-based roleplaying. Basically, we're telling a story together, and everyone creates and 'plays' a character in the universe by describing their actions. It's completely free to play and we're always welcoming new players, even folks who are completely new to text-based roleplaying.Since our game is set in the Wing Commander universe I thought there might be some interest here. It's actually set 40 years after the end of the Terran-Kilrathi war, so it sort of combines an 'original scifi' feel with the WC universe and underpinnings.Our long-term plans include a hex-based space combat system, economic trading between planets, and so on - and there's plenty of good storytelling to be had.To connect to the game, most folks use a specialized MUD client application, or you can use our simple Flash-based client at http://www.wcmush.com/client/ - the main black screen is the output back from the game, and the white bar on the bottom is where you type. Type connect guest once you see the connection screen scroll by, and you'll be connected to the game, and can talk by typing +help Hi there! - if anyone's around, we can help you take it from there.Anyway, thanks for reading - hope you'll check out our website and, if it looks interesting, stop by and say hi!

Nice idea and very different to the normal sort of game.

Soon as I get a few more games off my plate I will take a look at WC: New Horizon MUSH. I will add this to the game list. Taking a quick look around as a guess it will definitely take some time to learn all of these commands.Like this... Score: '999 Jeff Goldblum Bobble Heads'

Thanks for the warm reception! Definitely feel free to come by and ask questions; I recognize that this genre of games can be a bit intimidating at first, but it's actually quite simple and a hell of a lot of fun once you get into it.

I love it. One day in, got into a certain faction and got free XP for being the game's first criminals. In style too...Yep, I'm doing good@Dark, Drop Logan Kreyl a message on the MUSH, I'll help you out with most things. If I ain't too busy dodging an IC bounty. (LONG story...)