Zugg!
I was recently able to catch Mike Potter (Zugg) of Zuggsoft Software, the creator of zMUD and CMUD and tie him down long enough to answer a few questions for our players about his history with MUDs, his MUD clients, and his future plans for his products.
So without further ado!
Me: Would you relate your first experience or introduction to MUDs?
Mike: In the summer of 1995 I was depressed from the divorce from my first wife. I discovered MUDs to escape from the “real world” and was hooked! I didn’t like any of the PC MUD clients available at that time, so I started writing my own. My clan-mates on Dark Castle started using it and told me that I should make it Shareware and sell it to other MUD players. A year later I formed Zugg Software and started selling zMUD . Zugg was my old pen/paper D&D character name, and the name I was using on the Dark Castle MUD. I no longer play any MUD using the name of “Zugg”, so if you see somebody using that name, they are an imposter. In 1997, the income from zMUD was enough that I was able to quit my day job and work on zMUD fulltime. Today, almost 15 years later, Zugg Software is the last remaining full-time business selling and supporting MUD client software. Continue reading
