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What does it look like?

Introduction

8Bit-MUSH is a virtual world where players from all over the globe can explore, create things, and interact with each other. 8Bit is text-based, though players often combine colors and symbol characters to create "FANSI Art", as seen in the picture of the smurf village above.

The game is similar in design to the 80's interactive fiction games such as Zork, and is composed of thousands of "rooms" linked together by "exits". At any one time you are located in exactly one room (your location), but can type the name of the exits in that room to walk through one of them on into another nearby room. There are also "objects" located in rooms (such as the ATM and Baker Smurf in the above screenshot). Objects can be looked at, smelled, touched, picked up, and sometimes even used as keys to get into otherwise locked exits. They can also be programmed using "MUSHCode" to interact with text typed by players.

The world is user-extensible, meaning that any player may add their own rooms/exits/objects to the world. Because of this, 8-Bit is constantly expanding, and new things to do are frequently being added to the game.

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