Roll the names
Credits
No persistent world is made by one person. Dark Pawns carries the work of its founders, implementors, builders, engine authors, and the players who kept returning.
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Dark Pawns staff
Names and roles below are drawn from the preserved project history and original wizard list.
- Serapis (Derek Karnes)
- Founder and original implementor
- Tracer (C. Jackson)
- Co-founder and early developer
- Orodreth (S. Thompson)
- Coder and later co-implementor
- Frontline (R.E. Paret)
- Coder, co-implementor, historian, and website author
- Arak (B. Parker)
- Coder
- Oddity (A. McConnell)
- Head builder
- Nimos
- Builder
- Aralius (R. Martin)
- Builder
- Doragar
- Builder and coder
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Preserved wizard list
A snapshot from Frontline’s original Dark Pawns website, not an all-time roster.
“Wizards are a secret lot, and very powerful. They are not to be trifled with.”
- Orodreth
- Frontline
- Doragar
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The engine lineage
Dark Pawns descends from software shared freely by generations of MUD developers.
CircleMUD was created by Jeremy Elson and is derived from DikuMUD Gamma 0.0 by Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, Hans Henrik Stærfeldt, Michael Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer.
04
The restoration
The current Go port and website are maintained as an open-source project.
- Zach Greene (zax0rz)
- Project lead, Go restoration, and modern website
- Contributors
- Everyone whose code, testing, research, and corrections appear in the repository history
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And the players.
The clans, arguments, late-night sessions, forum posts, bug reports, maps, rumors, and friendships were part of the game too. The surviving record is incomplete, but it is being gathered in the Archive.