Avalon: The Legend Lives | |
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Developer(s) | Yehuda Simmons |
Publisher(s) | Yehuda Simmons |
Engine | Hourglass |
Platform(s) | Platform independent |
Release | 1989 |
Genre(s) | Fantasy MUD |
Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Avalon: The Legend Lives is a text-based online multi-player role-playing game world that was first released on 28 October 1989 at the gaming convention Adventure 89. It has maintained a near-continuous on-line presence with consistent and intact persona files and player history since the late 1980s. Until regular outages began occurring in 2023, it was the longest continuously running online role-playing game in history.[1][2][3]
While it follows closely in the tradition of many early multi-user dungeons,[4] Avalon offered many features that have since become signature components of the role-playing game genre: real economies, distinct ecosystems and weather effects, gods with followers and priests, player housing and autonomous governments, and skill-based real time player vs player (PvP) combat, and a warfare system.
Within Avalon, players are offered the opportunity to "live another life"; to fully immerse themselves in the gameworld—a world of merchants, thieves, princes, gods, dragons, and more. It is a game where its history and narrative can be decided, in part, by the players themselves.
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