Ground Zero was a MUD (multi-user dungeon) which was popular in the late 90s.

The goals of this project:

1. Fix obvious bugs.
2. Enforce some standardization in the databases:
   • Keywords on objects should be obvious.
   • Some sanity brought to coloring on objects and mobiles.
   • Clean up in-game text where it is a bit immature.
3. Add in-game documentation where it doesn't exist.
4. Correct in-game documentation where it is erroneous or incomprehensible.

The end goal is to leave the GZ codebase in a better place than I found it so if anyone else with a nostalgia kick comes along it should be relatively simple to pick it up and make it work.

Things you need to make this work:

1. A *NIX machine to run it all (MacOS apparently works according to master owner)
2. gcc, make, and a semi-standard set of libraries (base CentOS install works)
3. libcares

How to make it work

1. Clone/download this repository
2. Build and install libcares
3. Make the necessary source changes according to the instructions in groundzeromud/src/README
4. Build the server by going into groundzeromud/src and hitting make
5. Hit ./ground0 and pray

Installation on Ubuntu server:

1. sudo apt-get install build-essential ksh libz-dev libc-ares-dev
2. git clone https://github.com/gastamper/groundzero2.git
3. cd groundzero2/
4. Make the necessary source changes according to the instructions in groundzeromud/src/README
5. make
6. ./ground0