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If you are trying to beat the record for “most rooms in a text adventure”, I’m afraid you’ve got a long way to go - Level 9’s Snowball has more than 7k rooms.

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Looks like marketing [1].

> The game is advertised as having more than 7.000 locations. In reality there are about 200 unique locations and the rest is part of a maze with exact locations.

[1] https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6993/ZX-Spectrum/Snowb...

> over 6800 of these rooms are essentially identical. Snowball is used in this context as the ultimate illustration of the absurdities of old-school adventures, with their mazes and sprawling geographies full of corridors and empty rooms. [1]

[1] https://www.filfre.net/2013/06/snowball/

IIRC, AvatarMUD (avatar.outland.org) has 20,000+ rooms in it. It's been a long time since I played, but it's absolutely massive!

Yes, I remembered that some MUDs touted much more rooms. I've found Aarchon (15K) [1] and SlothMUD (23K) [2]. And that's just the number of rooms, the other numbers (8K mobs, 7K items, 12K NPCs) are massive as well.

But big MUDs usually have "builder" teams so the comparison is unfair. However, these numbers have hardly been matched by game studios - WoW or Runescape comes to mind. And then there's Dwarf Fortress which reaches the infinite in some categories thanks to procedural generation.

[1] https://www.aarchonmud.com/arc/features

[2] https://www.mudportal.com/listings/by-genre/hack-slash/item/...

Yah, aardwolf (the one o played in ancient times) apparently has 35,000 rooms.

Collaborative building over decades adds up!

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