City of Ages: Picture Supportive Text MUD (server and client included)

About this game

CITY OF AGES [as of May 2026, 57671 downloads, approximately 6300 a year, retro gaming is clean fun] ! WHY PLAY THIS MULTIPLAYER GAME? ARE YOU A HACKER TYPE? LIKE TO LEARN COMMANDS THAT DO SOMETHING COOL? CRACKING GAMES INSIDE! CoA HAS ONE OF EVERYTHING: GREAT JOKES, EVERY RANDOM ITEM TYPE, mini GAMES get offered to you ! THIS IS THE GAME YOU ALL BADLY WANTED and NEEDED THAT RUNS ON ANY LAPTOP ! YOU CAN USE YOUR TABLET or PHONE and dial-in with TELNET to this SERVER and play a family safe game ! HOMEWORK? YOUR RELATIVES WANT YOU TO PLAY THIS GAME, its Textcraft, no graphics, no arguments, right? GET YOUR LAST COLLECTORS RETRO ASCII GAME - PERSISTANT WORLD - OPEN WORLD - OPTIMIZED CODE - STABLE CODE - FAST SQL CODE - BUILT IN TELNET SERVER - BUILT IN SQL SERVER [select statement report ability] - SUPPORTS BITMAP and TEXT - MINI-DOOR GAMES - FULLY INTEGRATED BITMAP GRAPHICAL CLIENT - and we are another earner of the Title: 'Titan of Text' due to the contribution level of this game. This is a highly stable computer game that comfortably supports 46 players without relying on instances. Our multi-user dungeon includes everything you’d expect from other MUDs, plus features found in many 3D graphical games. With no instances, it offers a world that feels as real as current technology allows, while maintaining low system requirements. 2026 - THE CLIENT AND SERVER ARE FINISHED [Original release: 1998] - ALPHA BETA phases are completed - thanks to all your email suggestions over the years! ** If you want to join us at our Official server - go over to our Discussions Section. Zerotier and/or direct IP connect! The year is 1979. You are bored and you cannot find your friends or their bicycles on anyone's lawn. You do not have a fun thing to do today. So you decided you have been away too long from your Ascii games. You have been war dialing random phone numbers for hours around the city, and you found it, City of Ages ! You finally found a Bulletin Board System to dial into with your 1200 baud modem. You download this game, you are ready to login, finding yourself at a prompt, and you type the games name: C:\> coaserver.exe it runs.... with PERFECTION, a perfectly simulated text game with all the Knick-Knacks of a modern game! Now, choose your imagination over 3D and dive into a real text adventure within a powerful RPG engine every modern RPG text MUD should have! With movement of your mouse and keyboard build within this Textcraft environment! A fully programmed RPG mini game host, and MMO in a giant wrapper, the "we got it all" text adventure with snip and sketch and paint shop programs you can have fun with editable bitmap pictures. You can activate or deactivate the two types of graphics systems! A QUICK MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR Everyone keeps playing my game, vote me up so everyone knows its a good and working game as per its design ! Cheaper than buying me a coffee. When you vote properly, us free source developers hear you, like you, and feel the need to build more for everyone. Thanks ! This is the most addictive bitmap and Ascii graphics retro game ever created, and yes its 3D designed mathematically, but no wired or textured graphics. This way the game will run on all laptops and computers under any 32 bit windows emulator or a specialized 32 bit compatibility layer of a future operating system. This Role Playing Game with mini-door games built in, will also be your Immortal as you play, and help advance up to three characters in your party following group. A HUGE Persistent‑World ASCII RPG With 2.5D Depth, Endless Systems, and Zero Graphical Requirements City of Ages [experience a true open world - persistent world - the last Ascii retro game for game collectors] City of Ages is a unique and immersive text-based game that offers a different gaming experience. It is designed for players who enjoy collecting games and can read along to solve hidden abilities within the text environment. The game is server-side driven, ensuring that it is impossible to cheat against other players. It supports up to 46 players simultaneously and is compatible with various other game servers. The game includes features like item randomization, stats, rare items, unique items, treasures, and a starship system. Players can also engage in various mini-games and use commands to enhance their gameplay experience. The game is perfect for those who appreciate a different type of gaming and can read along to solve hidden abilities. City of Ages, is a fully persistent, text‑driven RPG where imagination does the rendering and the world never resets. Drop an item, bury it, hide it on your starship—log out for a week and it will still be there. Built on a hardened server engine with over two decades of development, City of Ages delivers a massive feature set in a lightweight, instantly‑loading package. Whether you’re a retro collector, a MUD veteran, or someone discovering text RPGs for the first time, City of Ages offers a uniquely deep, endlessly replay able world that runs on anything. Great for people that like collecting great games of all kinds, this one is the last PC retro Ascii graphics game with all source code, no bugs, no coding errors, perfection for what it is! This is why I made this game, its a different kind of gaming! Play it once in awhile ! its GOOD ! Just Different ! 🗡️ *New: Now powered by AI assistance applications !! Mini World Dynamics Deep Reporting Systems PAGE command for player competition reports REPORT command to see your over all statics SCORE or X command to see your character sheet 100s of built in quick commands 🌍 Persistent World Items remain in the world after server restarts Use DROP to leave items behind, use BURY to preserve them even longer some use BURY to use Transmutation devices with their Inventory Houses and starships act as permanent storage zones Message board Items stay exactly where you leave them—even after server reboots Houses / Starships / and bags, act as permane…