The action-roleplay game

The incomplete action-roleplay game is inspired by Diablo, a simple and efficient game. Like in Diablo, you only need to point and hold click to attack (here, press the arrow keys to face the monster, press Tab to select the monster and press and hold Enter to attack it). Like in Diablo, the monsters die quickly (one or two hits are often enough), and some parts of the game are randomly generated. SoundMUD lacks many elements of Diablo, like the inventory management, more monsters, potions, weapons, skill tree, quests. The 0.9 version of SoundMUD provided here in English is not the latest one but is probably the better one today.

Warnings

The action-roleplay game is not complete, and I have not been working on it for more than one year, because I have to complete the strategy game (SoundRTS), or at least to lead it to a not too uncomplete state. So this version is really for people that wonder what SoundMUD is, more than to play with it. Though, the multiplayer game have been used for a long time by some players.

You can use headphones, but be careful: keep the volume low and make frequent pauses. Like Diablo, this game is probably not recommended under 17.

Installation

For Windows, follow these steps:

• unzip soundmud-0.9-en-win.zip in the folder of your choice
• run soundmud.exe to start the game (double-click on this file)

For other platforms, follow these steps:

• install Python 2.4
• install the latest Pygame for Python 2.4
• if you use a Mac, you may have to install PyObjC too
• unzip soundmud-0.9-en.zip in the folder of your choice
• run soundmud.pyc to start the game (in Windows, double-click on this file)

Short manual

You have the choice between the following games:

• a multiplayer competitive game (called "game action-roleplay game 2"): the player with the higher number of killed monstres wins.
• a multiplayer collaborative game (called "game action-roleplay game"): the players try to kill all the monsters as fast as possible.
• a single player training mode for the competitive game.
• a single player training mode for the collaborative game.

For the action-roleplay game the keys are:

• press F1 for help
• press Tab to select an object
• press and hold Enter to reach and use or attack the selected object
• press the arrow keys to move or turn
• press Control to examine the selected object
• press F5 to repeat
• press Space for a summary
• press Escape to quit
• press Del to drop your weapon
• press backspace to use another weapon
• press Control + F11 to change the point of vue (in the "from above" mode, you are always facing north and Tab selects every object, in front of you or not, and the arrow keys make you move in the 4 directions instead of turning).

There are some more commands for the strategy game (you should try SoundRTS first, anyway):

• Q and A (then Enter) to give an order to the current unit
• W and S (then Enter) to command another unit
• X or Z to check your resources
• backspace to give the default order
• 1 to command all the units in the same place
• 2 to command half the units in the same place
• 3 to command one third of the units in the same place
• 0 to command only the current unit
• = to order retreat
• Control + arrow keys to select a far place, then press Enter or Backspace

How to start an Internet server

The servers list is limited to one server: the last one that registered!

If no server works, try to start your own server by double-clicking on server.exe or server.pyc.

If you are behind a firewall you must allow port 2500.

If you are behind a firewall you must allow the port 2500 (in TCP).

Moreover, if you use a router, you must add a virtual server for the port 2500 to the IP address of your server. Without that, the router won't know to which machine it will forward the packets. In the case of a virtual server, you may need to give a fixed IP to your server with DHCP.

Contact

The project is currently not active, but you can send your comments to soundmud hat gmail dhot com.