Salon on M.U.L.E Creator Dani Bunten

douglips writes "If you're a hacker of a certain age, chances are you played M.U.L.E. Salon is running a story on M.U.L.E. creator Dan[i] Bunten. Ahead of her time, she insisted that games would be most enjoyable when they involved social interactions rather than just flashy single-player action and graphics."

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M.U.L.E. Clone

[Serra]

Here is a link to a pretty good M.U.L.E. clone named Space HoRSE. Not quite the old version, but you can try the free demo for nostalgia's sake.

M.U.L.E. is just perfect

[Jacek Poplawski]

M.U.L.E. is one of the best games ever.

It has very interesting rules: with other 3 players you land on planet Irata (read backwards!) and start colonize it. Every turn you get and buy new plots, then put artificial mule on it. You not only decide what to produce, but also set price for buy/sell. There is true economy there!

Please notice year this game was released. Please notice hardware it runs - just 64KB of RAM! It's extremely playable and contains multiplayer support (wihout net of course). I don't know _any_ good clone of that game.

To be honest I started playing with Atari800 code, to play M.U.L.E. with my girlfriend (two joysticks support!).

M.U.L.E. is just perfect. Like NetHack or DOOM.

Information for fans of M.U.L.E

[afflatus_com]

The M.U.L.E. scene is alive and well, even now many years after its release. Ah planet IRATA (which was Atari spelled backwards).

While there is no GameSpy planetmule.com website for M.U.L.E, I strongly recommend World of M.U.L.E as the best starting point.

The Strategies is insightful, giving the designer's own ways of beating their enemies.

For the diehards, there is screenshots of the long-lost sequels: namely the Deluxe Amiga version, as well as "Son of M.U.L.E." which Dani discontinued because of EA's desire to add guns and bombs to her creation.

Finally, is Dani's email letter to the site shortly before her death.

A brilliant creator, I wish she was still around making great works.