'We can continue Pratchett's efforts': the gamers keeping Discworld alive

Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld has a long association with video games. Not only was the author himself a fan of Doom, Thief, and The Elder Scrolls, but the relationship between his satirical fantasy world and video games goes all the way back to 1986's The Colour of Magic – a text-adventure adaptation of Pratchett's first Discworld novel. Later games based on Pratchett's work include 1995's Discworld, a notoriously difficult adventure game voiced by actors including Eric Idle and Tony Robinson, and 1999's Discworld Noir, a 3D detective game where you play as the universe's first private investigator. But the most ambitious Discworld game in existence is not officially associated with Terry Pratchett at all. The Discworld MUD is a text-based "multi-user-dungeon" – an early form of online role-playing game where everything from places to in-game actions are described in words.