BatMUD
| Original author(s) | Antti Aleksi Luostarinen, Niklas Lindroos |
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| Developer(s) | B.A.T. ry |
| Stable release | 1.99, 2011-06-11 / December 28, 2006 |
| Written in | Java |
| Platform | Windows Macintosh Linux JVM |
| Website | http://www.bat.org/ |
BatMUD is a medieval fantasy MUD, established in 1990. BatMUD is Finland-based and operated and owned by a non-profit organization, Balanced Alternative Techniques ry ry ("B.A.T. ry"), officially registered 1994 in Helsinki, Finland.
By 2006, over 100,000 players had frequented the game, making it one of the largest text-based multiplayer games on the Internet. In the beginning of 2008, it had over 30,000 subscriptions. At the end of 2011, amount of subscriptions was similarly over 30,000 giving BatMUD a flat growth (amount of new players equal those who no longer frequent the game). It has been called a "very popular and complex game".
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