Sindome
Sindome is a cyberpunk MOO (a text-based online virtual reality system to which multiple users are connected at the same time). Roleplaying in Sindome is unique in that most of its coding is custom, employing XML, File-IO, custom web based websocket powered game client (optional), and a graphical web interface. Sindome has been online since 1997.
The Sindome world is based on the cyberpunk genre of science fiction. Sindome draws its inspiration from books, movies, and traditional role-playing games like: William Gibson's Neuromancer, Count Zero, Virtual Light, Idoru, "Burning Chrome"; Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash; Bruce Sterling's Mirrorshades, Richard K Morgan's Altered Carbon and Islands in the Net; R. Talsorian Games' Cyberpunk 2020; the movies Blade Runner, Judge Dredd, and The Matrix series.
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DeveloperThe Sindome Corporation
ReleasedDecember 31, 1997
StatusReleased
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About This Game
In 2103, the corporations have grown larger than the nations they replaced. Withmore City — a geodesic dome built in the wastelands of lower California, surrounded by a scarred and partially submerged landscape — is their achievement and their product. Its founder citizens built it with their lives; its population stratified into corporate drones above and the destitute below, with law enforcement authorized to act as judge, jury, and executioner anywhere in the city. Characters in Sindome carve out survival in the underworld, fighting the structural inequality the dome was built on. The game is played entirely through text in a persistent world shared by all players simultaneously.