TriadCity is an advanced, text-based virtual world with a literary  
orientation, currently in beta.

Where most MUDs focus on 'kill the monster' style adventuring, 
TriadCity explores themes which have been central to Western culture: 
good and evil, city and country, nature and civilization, personal 
and collective identities, violence and nonviolence, freedom and 
slavery.

'Text-based' means that you read and type to play TriadCity. It's not 
a 3-D graphical environment such as World of Warcraft or Second Life. 
We find the cartoonishness of those experiences off-putting. For us, 
our own ability to form excellent pictures in imagination is far more 
fulfilling. Many people agree: TriadCity attracts many refugees from 
these cartoon worlds.

'Literary orientation' means that narrative techniques from the novel 
and other traditions are incorporated. For example, various forms of 
player subjectivity are imposed, some relative, some radical. This 
means that character histories and views of the world are potentially 
unique to each individual. We know of no other "game" where this has 
ever been done. TriadCity's literary merits have been widely cited, 
including 'The Cambridge Companion To Postmodernism', which 
highlights TriadCity as its culminating example of literary 
Postmodernism.

'Beta' means the game is very stable, quite large, and profoundly 
not-yet-done. The world is just beginning to be fleshed out enough to 
enable players to see how it all fits together. Look for the game 
world and available player experiences to greatly expand as we near 
Version 1.0.

We're proud to stress that TriadCity is female-friendly. There are 
more active women than men players. Four of the top five players are 
women.

We'd love to have you join us! Please check us out, and tell us what 
you think.