Authors

Petal is a neurodiverse roleplay MUD enthusiast who started developing MUDs on a dare nearly two decades ago. She has coded on three RP MUDs over the years (Shadow Siege, Dark Isles, and Carrier) but now spends her time primarily as a player, working to help build friendly and supportive MUD communities.

Amika is a comics artist who used to play DikuMUD on elementary school computers during class when she was definitely supposed to be doing something else.

Brandon Cross has been a MUDder since 2013. He’s since taken up the staffer role, both as a builder and a coder. In his journey of trying to build and enhance virtual worlds, he’s learned several lessons along the way, and he hopes to impart some of them so that future MUD developers might avoid some of the traps that can eat time and cause stress and frustration.

Andruid (she/her) is a writer, roleplayer, storyteller, and nerd who tries to live by Bill and Ted wisdom, i.e. "Be excellent to each other." She created Writing Games to share lessons learned and to introduce new players to the world of text-based games.