Pythonic MOO

The playsh project is getting a little buzz in some circles:

playsh is a MOO-like text environment that runs on your local computer. The basic object types and verbs are based on LambdaMOO … playsh is written in Python.

I never got into the whole MUD/MUSH/MOO thing, but sometimes I wish I had. Sounds like it could be fun.

Update: It looks like I really missed the point of playsh when I originally read about it. Doh! If you want a far better description, check out Coding Tool Is a Text Adventure at Wired News.

Update 2: Pinhead’s Progress has photos and a writeup from a talk presented by the playsh people.

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  1. import this. » Blog Archive » Building MUDs with Python Says:

    [...] As I mentioned the other day, I somehow went straight from BBS door games to IRC/web, skipping right over the whole MUD/MOO/MUSH phenomenon. That’s unfortunate. So I’ve been looking into MUDs lately, particularly how to build them using Python as the language of choice… [...]

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