A project as large as Arctic has been and could only be successful through the co-operation of many people. This file is an attempt to thank everyone who was responsible for Arctic.
The original game idea, concept, and design of DikuMud are due to: Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, Hans Henrik Staerfeldt, Michael Seirfert, and Sebastian Hammer.
The base code that we began with had additional contributions from: Michael Curran, Ragnar Loenn, and Bill Wisner.
In the early days, the following people contributed code, some of which is still used in one form or another: Jhalavar from Armageddon, Loki from Silly, WhiteGold from Epic, Geraden Domme from Epic, Twilight from Epic, and Riverwind.
We would like to give special mention to one of the legendary figures of DikuMUD: Jeff Stine, otherwise known as Abaddon from Adversary. Jeff supplied us with some useful code, but moreover inspired us to strive for a "better mud". Adversary was one of the most stable, and popular muds. One of our goals was to strive for the same image that Adversary had.
- + Dean Gaudet (Lazarus)
- + Dale "Fish" Woolridge (Fistandantilus)
- + Alan T. Krantz (Muddy)
- + Steve Lumetta (Valiar)
- + Jason Fetterly (Paladine)
- + Aaron C. Smith (Incarnadine)
- + Brian Brennan (Sirrion)
- + Jim Tsou (Layorick)
- + Jani Jrvinen (Dimitri)
- + Dan Bunge (Mahasamarahu)
- + Roger Paulen (Flint)
- + James Malfair (Morgion)
- + TR Wooster (Habbakuk/Elest)
- + Bob Tischendorf (Goldmoon)
- + Chris Brown (Niall)
- + Greg Bradford (Cale)
- Adam Greuling (Aristox)
A '+' indicates that this person is no longer active in the day to day running of the game. Jason was responsible for getting the ball rolling (early 1992), but he was soon no longer able to continue in that role. Dean and Dale took over in late 1992. Dean retired from this duty in the latter part of 1995 and Dale did so early in 1996. Upon Dale's retirement, he handed the reins to Roger. Aaron joined later (as a coder), and made some significant contributions. He also provided us with a home at Berkeley when we went public the second time.
The following people are ostensibly "creators" however they have actually had a much larger hand at shaping Arctic than the title "creator" merits:
Additional creators of the Arctic world are (in no particular order): Mel Rogoff (Elistan), Richard Gabriel (Reorx), Dave Westfall (Pharoah), Eddie Krebs (Arack), Derek Orpen (Tasslehoff), Roger Spotts (Seoman), Eric McKenzie (Merp), Carsten Wimmer (Galan), P. Brady Townsend (Archimedes),Tornado, Fuddle, Thuler, Soom, Elest, Ext, Enchant, Scription, Gnob. See HELP AREA for recent zone creators.
We would like to thank the crew of beta testers who through bug reports and ideas helped make Arctic a game worth playing. There were many testers, so this list is probably incomplete: Blast, Chester, Cowboybob, Gizo, Khamul, Lionheart, Mozart, Seoman, Skye, Sparc, Storm, Sardon, and Vanyel.
Arctic is very thankful for all the sites that have provided us with a home. We spent a long time at Linfield College and would like to thank Craig Luis (known as Gilean) for that, as well as Mel Rogoff for introducing us to Craig. Arctic also spent time at Comtech which was pointed out to us by Todd Janson (Emyrald). During our long development time we changed sites at least 5 times. We are thankful to the old administrators for allowing us to use their site for a short period of time.
We also enjoyed a long stay at the University of California, Berkeley campus, thanks to the Computer Science Undergraduate Association. We would like to thank Aaron Smith (Incarnadine) for providing the home initially and Daniel Holliman (Thwack) for continued support on-site when trouble came our way.
At one point, we hosted the game on our own machine provided through donations by the implementors and proceeds from the Arctic T-Shirt fundraiser. We would like to thank Wired and Dean Gaudet for allowing us to house our computer on their network.
From 1999 though 2008 we were running the game on a machine at Rutgers University. This machine was part of a little net that makes up undertone.org. Our thanks are extended to Mark Lorenc (Scrappinak) for providing that home for so long and providing support for it.
As of January 31, 2009, Arctic has moved to Texas and is operated by Will Baelson (Phred).... (need more) .
We hope you enjoy the game.