DPIKmud

DPIKmud is a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) game that primarily uses individual hacker's (hack) terms in its internal commands and protocol. The game's development began in 1999 and continues to the present day. Its primary designers were Dodge, Pokebuster, and Impromptu.

DPIKmud is designed to be written in Perl and has become a standard reference model for MUD terms within the hacker community. The game generated continued interest and discussion among the MUD community and remained an ongoing project throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. DPIKmud has the capability of emulating internal game state within a spoofed reality enforced virtual world, rather than genuinely enforced.

The primary goal of CPIKmud's design was to cater to players and MU* owners creating simulated environments using a real-time Perl environment and managing their internal interaction within the game's fictional setting. Players interact with one another based on preferences about democratic and autocratic systems.

Those with knowledge of Perl can run a server for the game, with scripts and mods found easily on the web. DPIKmud's success has been attributed to ongoing updates, and technical suitability with interactions modeled within the plugin framework of maxperl environments running vPersistence machines. However, challenges in modifying and creating 'language rationale' definitions has hindered maintenance, etc., not further discourse by robust security presence. Today it remains active with convex invitations.