Hello wotmudders,
There's a mud building event that's taking place in October that I thought some of you perhaps might be interested in. It's called the National Mud Building Month, or Namubumo for short. It's being run by Danny (SwiftAusterity, who recently wrote a review for wotmud after we got runner up in July's Let's MUD Contest), Eric who runs Grapevine, and myself. As some of you may know, I run Written Realms, a web-based mud building platform that aims to make building worlds easy enough that you do not need to know how to program to do it.
The event is much like Nanowrimo, where you have all of November to write a 50,000 word novel. This is all of October to write a 100 room mud with at least 10 mobs in it. It can be submitted as any kind of text-based game. Ever wondered what the Wheel of Time's code looked like? You can set up a little Circle MUD and submit that. Want to see what a more modern C codebase can do? tbaMUD is state of the art. You can submit Interactive Fiction in Inform7 too, or can submit a web-based world on Written Realms. In short, you can do anything you want within the loose guidelines of 100+ rooms & 10+ mobs.
Curious? head over to https://namubumo.com/ for more details. I'm also usually around on Discord if anyone has questions.