NakedMud: Content-less MUD engine

This site is maintained as a memorial for Geoff, who tragically passed away at the age of 38 after living with cancer for many years. Those who knew him remember a kind, gentle soul full of generosity and warmth for friends, family, his students, and small fuzzy creatures. He was known as a talented researcher and teacher in academic circles, but few knew that Geoff was also a dedicated game developer and programmer in his off-hours.

NakedMUD's development began at the tail-end of Geoff's undergraduate years at the University of Alberta (2004-2005), and then continued at a measured pace during his graduate student years at University of Cincinnati's Masters of Experimental Psychology program (2006-2008). After being admitted to the Experimental Psychology Ph.D program (2008-2009), NakedMUD received a couple more years of bug fixes, feature additions and updates.

Geoff's successful completion of the Ph.D program signaled the end of NakedMUD's development, as he returned to his home turf in Edmonton, Alberta to work as a sessional and associate lecturer at Grant MacEwan University and the University of Alberta, and fulfilled his duties as a loving husband and cat-dad and son, until his death in 2021.

I remember Geoff as one of the most passionate, dedicated and joyful people I knew during my years in academia, and I hope this small collection of Geoff's game development work remains as a working memorial of his love for programming.

This is Geoff's site, maintained exactly as he left it before the University deleted his webspace. Some of the links/additional downloads remain unavailable. Thanks to the efforts of fellow software preservationists @avidal, @stevestreza, @crawfordsm and @lewiscowles1986, most of Geoff's source code for NakedMUD has been located and restored to this site.

- Archivist vga256
E-mail: vga {at} vga256.com