Stonia project

STONIA PROJECT

What is Stonia?

Stonia is a multi-user game (virtual life) in the internet. It's also known as Stonia MUD (Multi-User Dimension (or Dungeon)). All MUDs at this time were with text-based interface and all what happened or what did you do you saw it scrolling over the screen as a book-story.

What does Stonia mean?

Stonia is like a synonym of Ancient and Mythological Estonia. I found this name myself and I thought that this name is excellent for the first MUD in Estonia. What is the base idea of Stonia?

In first point it was just to have fun from developing something and get some C programming experience in UNIX machines. Also it was fun to have extremely fast link with multi-user virtual-life role-playing game. Quite soon we thought that Stonia world should look like an old mythological Estonia based on Estonian and other Nordic countries mythologies and stories. When did Stonia start?

Stonia project started in 1993. Actually in the first time it was not as a project, it was just like a test-site of something new for most of Estonians. At this time we didn't have fast internet connections with other MUD sites in the internet. Then I thought why not to make our own MUD. How did Stonia start?

First there was Stonia, what run on MERC code. It was in 1993. In 1994 I took another base code, Diku ROM 2.3 (Rivers of MUD). I made thousands of recodings and additions before I released Stonia (The Cruel and Lost World of Stonia). We called it Stonia-II in start, but because I didn't do any big recodings in Stonia-I then now we call it just Stonia. Currently we have reprogrammed about 80% of base Diku and ROM code. Most areas are modified or are made especially for Stonia only. Who made Stonia?

It bases on Diku MUD ideology. But it has been modified and recoded by several implementors and world builders. I give you a short list of main developers and area builders:

Years	Known in Stonia as	Real-life name	Jobs
1993-1999	RalfII	Raul Tölp	The first implementor from 1993 and coordinator from 1995 in all subjects (ideas, world building, programming, webmaster, etc).
1994	Xalzr	Priit Randla	Recodings, debugging and external scripts
1994-1995	Kaur	Kaur Virunurm	External UNIX programs and scripts, consulting
1994-1996	Tsoome	Toomas Soome	Solaris support and debugging
1994-1999	Joka	Asko Seeba	The main implementor from 1995-1998, coordinator from 1998, he did/does everything except areas
1994-1997	Suller	Sulev Türnpuu	Main area builder
1994-1995	Waim	Andres Didrik	Second main area builder
1994	Sauron	Jaanus Lillenberg	Area builder, generated a lot of great ideas, consulting
1994	Krooks		Developed the first Stonia web site
1994-1995	Aeon	Margus Väli	Third main area builder
1995-1996	Pets		Second Implementor
1996-1999-…	Segoy		Second Implementor after Pets and the first implementor after Joka
1999-…	Cody		Main area builder
1999-…	Saruman		Main ruler
2000-…	Karzumm		Main ruler
2000-…	Stok		Main ruler
2000-…	Seem		Second area builder
2000-…	Hiiler	Marek Mandre	New Implementor (Joka and Segoy retired)
2000-…	Zarquon	Elmet Orasson	New Implementor (Joka and Segoy retired)
2000-2020-...	Volur	Ahto Janter	New Implementor and main contact
2000-2010	Finsoft	Alvar Soome	Implementor

Thanks to all these people and also to Tartu University Computer Center people who allow us to run Stonia in their server. I'm sorry, if I missed some important developer, builder etc. - please just let me know by e-mail and I will make requested additions to this table. How we see the future developments of Stonia?

Stonia C-program code will be free in year 2000. We have ported it from Sun Solaris to Linux and we will let all of you to participate in Stonia development.

There may be a lot of more questions to answer, just let me know what do you want to see on this page.