GodWars

File:God Wars II screenshot of dungeon with MUSHclient plugin.png screenshot showing a typical dungeon in God Wars II.]]

In 2002, Woolcock wrote a new MUD named God Wars II, a conceptual sequel to GodWars,{{R|gillett}} with a more personal dark fantasy universe.

The game relies heavily on player versus player combat, like the original GodWars, and features a deep and complex combat system where the player has to manipulate the limbs associated with the attacks, creating combos when the commands are stringed together.{{R|visti}}{{cite web|url=http://gaminghud.com/articles/god-wars-2 |title=GamingHUD |access-date=January 29, 2013}} This combo system is inspired from the tabletop game Spellbinder, of which the complexity is comparable to chess and go.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

The combat system was prototyped in his earlier Gladiator Pits MUD,{{R|gillett}} which won the maintainability award in a public coding competition, the 16K MUD competition,{{R|andreasen}}{{R|koster}} and has been called "stunning".{{R|ashon}}

God Wars II is also noted for its war mini-game (a strategic poker variant) and its helpful graphical MUSHclient interface. This interface includes a map that the user can click to travel faster and mechanical shortcuts. The game has a large world, without rooms typical of MUDs but using coordinates, and a process for advanced character customization.{{R|gillett}}

{{Reflist|colwidth=30em|refs=

{{cite web|url=http://lorry.org/arch-wizard/mudbase.txt |title=Hierarchy of MUDs}}

{{cite journal |author = John Bellone |title = So you want to be a coder, eh? |journal = The Mud Companion |date = March 2002 |issue = 3 |page = 28 |issn = 1499-1071 |quote = If you have a good amount of time on your hands, have a lot of ideas, and don't see another codebase that can be easily changed to fit your needs, then Merc is your choice. It is very flexible, has all the basics (except for color) and is just waiting for you. The next two choices are derivatives of the Merc codebase, SMAUG and GodWars. SMAUG is the codebase that 'Realms of Despair' runs on and is still being developed today ... GodWars is very similar to SMAUG, because it's based on Merc, and was created by KaVir}}

{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.mud.diku/msg/33aef894f8d2aab3?dmode=source&hl=en |title=First God Wars advert (19th July 1995)}}

{{cite journal|author=Erwin Andreasen |author2=Brandon Downey |title=The Mud Personality Test |journal=The Mud Companion |date=August 2001 |issue=1 |pages=33–35 |issn=1499-1071 |url=http://www.andreasen.org/bartle/stats.cgi |quote=Results from "Famous" MUD personalities ... Richard Woolcock ... Creator of Godwars |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000818064001/http://www.andreasen.org/bartle/stats.cgi |archive-date=August 18, 2000 }}

{{cite web|url=http://gaminghud.com/articles/meet-the-devs-kavir-of-god-wars-ii |title=Meet the Devs: KaVir of God Wars II |author=Dean Gillett |publisher=GamingHUD |date=2011-08-15 |quote=I had the opportunity to interview hobby developer Richard Woolcock (pictured left), better known as KaVir in the MUD community. KaVir created the original GodWars, which later became a codebase, of which there are 30+ MUDs running on it according to The MUD Connector. After closing the original GodWars down, KaVir would later move on to create God Wars II, which in my opinion is one of the most complex and advanced MUDs I’ve ever played. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527042328/http://gaminghud.com/articles/meet-the-devs-kavir-of-god-wars-ii |archive-date=May 27, 2012 }}

{{cite web

|url=http://www.mudconnector.com/motm

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060325001917/http://www.mudconnect.com/motm/motm-1098.html

|archive-date=2006-03-25

|title = TMC Archives: Mud of the Month

|publisher = The Mud Connector

|quote = The muds that were chosen as TMC's mud of the month each illustrated examples of excellence and provided a sampling of the wide array of entertainment value that muds can and do offer, we proudly stand by these choices and offer the past motm pages in our archive ... Vampire Wars - October '98 MotM}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/mudtimeline.shtml |title=Raph Koster's Online World Timeline|quote=1996 [...] GodWars, a Merc derivative codebase, is released unofficially.

}}

{{cite web

|url = http://archive09.linux.com/feature/119631

|title = Gaming from within the terminal

|author = Emil Visti

|publisher = linux.com

|date = 2007-10-30

|quote = For a little check on what game developers can actually accomplish with MUDs, take a look at God Wars II, or at least look through its New Player's Guide -> Combat section, which is simply astonishing in its complexity. For instance, it can utilize commands to make different body parts do separate things during combat.

|access-date = 2013-01-26

|archive-date = 2013-06-25

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130625222715/http://archive09.linux.com/feature/119631

|url-status = dead

}}

{{Cite web

| last1 = Andreasen | first1 = Erwin

| url = http://www.andreasen.org/16k.shtml

| title = 16K MUD competition - results

| access-date = 2013-01-28

| quote = In Maintainability, the clear winner is Richard "Kavir" Woolcock's (kavir@kavir.org) "The Gladiator Pits" entry. The C-code is simply exquisite, with very light macro usage, instructive function names and superb commenting: every function is commented with its purpose, arguments it takes and what value it returns. In addition, plenty of user documentation is included, carefully describing every available command. Out of original Diku's 647k of code, about 70k (11%) were comments. For "Gladiator Pits", the number is 18k out of 39k (46%!).

}}

{{Cite journal

| url = http://imaginary-realities.disinterest.org/volume4/issue4/explore_print.html

| title = Explorers have more fun

| author = Lord Ashon

| journal = Imaginary Realities

| date = April 2001

| quote = I want your mud to offer me something that no other mud does, and something that is challenging. Whether it is something stunning like the combat system that KaVir has developed for Gladiator Pits, or something totally mindless and random like the map system from GroundZero and GroundZero II. Both of them challenge my skills, why? Because, they are so unique and different.

| access-date = 2013-01-28

| archive-date = 2016-03-04

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073604/http://imaginary-realities.disinterest.org/volume4/issue4/explore_print.html

| url-status = dead

}}

}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225314/http://www.mudbytes.net/index.php?a=files&cid=40 GodWars codebase download]
• {{Official website|http://www.godwars2.org|The God Wars II official website}}

{{MUDs}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Godwars}}

Category:MUD servers