Is Dead Souls really Nightmare in disguise?
What is Nightmare? Nightmare was a mud. It was part of a branching of mud development that occurred early in the days of popularized mudding. Some folks decided to take MUD library development in a particular direction, and eventually made available what is now known as the Nightmare mudlib. Nightmare went through a few major changes, most notably from version 3 to version IV. By that time, the development of Nightmare was solely managed by a coder who called himself Descartes. What is the relationship between Nightmare and Dead Souls? It appears that Dead Souls began as a “development” MUD. This means that while Descartes ran his own MUD, he also worked on improving that MUD’s lib. It is unwise to make major changes to a MUD that people are playing on, so the Dead Souls development MUD was one which served as a platform to develop, extend, and improve the Nightmare lib without risking harm to active players. Sometime after the release of the Nightmare IV mudlib, Descartes decided to w
