Worldbuilding guides
Guides for people who want to design areas, characters and quests for a text game. Icesus is built by volunteers, and players can write new areas for it in Icesus Creator.
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Fantasy Worldbuilding With Real Players In It
What you build in Icesus Creator, how it compares with wikis, map makers and forum roleplay, and the steps from first login to an approved area. Open Icesus Creator.
Icesus Creator
Screenshots of the browser tool and the steps from an area plan to playtesting and review. You need player level 25, good writing skills and a creative mind.
How to Build a Game World
Designing an area’s rooms, inhabitants, objects and quests, from the plan to playtesting and review.
Collaborative Worldbuilding
For game masters and worldbuilders with settings of their own: what changes when several people write into one canon, and which tabletop skills carry over.
How to Make a MUD
What making a multi-user dungeon involves: world design, engine choice, content, hosting and finding players, which is the hardest part.
FluffOS vs Evennia: Choosing a MUD Engine
A code-level comparison of the two engines, and why Icesus runs on FluffOS.
Contribute to Icesus
To write areas for Icesus, see Contribute to Icesus. You can also build inside the game without any code: player councils claim and rebuild provinces, settlements with mines, smelteries, farms and shrines. New to the game? Start with How to Play a MUD.