[MUD-Dev2] [DESIGN] MUD on Omegle

[Matt Cruikshank]

Maybe some of you saw this on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/99sia/i_spent_two_hours_giving_a_text_adventure_on/

Omegle is a weird service where you're connected to a random person and can
have a random conversation.  Well, this guy decided to give the random
person a text adventure.

The idea has cropped up on Reddit that someone should make a program that
does the same thing.

I immediately suggested porting Inform, or some Z-Machine source code to use
Omegle's protocol.  I saw another article on Reddit where someone explained
that they had written a client in Python:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/99nbp/hey_reddit_i_made_a_very_basic_omegle_client_in/

It struck me as a fairly funny concept.  Someone thinks they're going to
connect with a random person, and instead, they're connected to a random
text adventure game.

Maybe it should be taken a step further, and the software could connect
several (hundreds?) of Omegle clients together into a simple MUD.  Granted,
Omegle isn't really designed to communicate among multiple people,
everything would start with "Stranger."

Just a thought.

-Matt Cruikshank