Based on our record, Twine seems to be a lot more popular than CMUD. While we know about 276 links to Twine, we've tracked only 1 mention of CMUD. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I think you and your kid would have fun designing a Choose Your Own Adventure game in Twine. https://twinery.org/ FWIW, there are a bunch of simple modern GUI builders, including GUI builders for the web, but none of them are popular, due to the sweet spot of supply and demand that Hypercard hit. When Hypercard launched, it came with every Mac, it was free, and there was nothing else like it available on... - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago
There's ChoiceScript by Choice Of Games. It's more along the lines of Choose Your Own Adventure. If you're hoping to make something with a fair amount of random events, you might want to check out Twine. Source: 6 months ago
You use something like https://twinery.org/ for creating the dialogues, and then write abstract code to handle that. Source: 6 months ago
The Twine website links to a few, along with thousands at IFDB; https://ifdb.org/search?searchbar=system%3Atwine And itch: https://itch.io/games/tag-twine See the Twinery for more, including the spec: https://twinery.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
The story is from my own mind, of course. I will maybe use Twine to help me with all the possible way to go, not sure yet. Source: 7 months ago
I was holding off to see if anyone would warn me against posting actual connection info but no one has. MUDs use the telnet protocol. This means there are multiple ways to connect. If you are familiar with telnet you can connect to dunemud.net port 6789. Alternatively, you can use a client designed specifically for muds. Zmud can be found here. http://zuggsoft.com/index.php. Mushclient can be found here.... Source: about 3 years ago
Ink by Inkle - ink is a popular open source scripting language for branching stories, designed for writers
Mudlet - Mudlet is a freshly-minted MUD client, designed to take mudding to a new level.
Quest - Quest lets you create sophisticated text-based games, without having to program.
TinTin++ - TinTin++, aka tt++, is a free MUD client for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
RenPy - Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform visual novel engine that helps you use words, pictures, and...
MUSHclient - MUSHclient - a 32-bit MU* client