RestMud - Text Adventure Games for Testers

RestMud is a text adventure game for Testers. We release different versions of the 'game' for different purposes. You'll find single player versions for download here. When training we have multiple maps and we run in a multi-user mode - hence the 'MUD'.

Because these are 'text' adventure games they have a stripped down interface as the GUI, accessible in the browser.

'Rest' means that the game also has a REST API.

Text Adventure Games

Text Adventure Games are a perfect training ground for Software Testing.

  • You have to explore
  • You have to observe
  • You have to build a model of the world you are within
  • Game logic is different from world logic, so you have to model it in context.
  • You have to keep track of what you have tried
  • You have to build a map
  • You learn how the game works as you play it
My stash of Adventure Game Stuff

The RestMud Games

That's why. We have created the RestMud games.

Essentially classic Text Adventures with a "verb noun" parser.

The GUI is simple. All text, and much of the game can be played by clicking on the onscreen links because we want to make it easy to start playing and start exploring.

e.g. Want to go South? Then click "S" in the "Visible Exits" section when you "look".

But we want you to have to build a model of the game, so you can't do everything via the GUI.

  • You will have to learn to amend URLs
  • You will have to use the browser developer tools to see more information
  • You could learn to read JSON and look at the log output
  • You could even use the Rest API
User issued look command in single player basic game

Single Player Games

You can download a Single Player Game map for free to play and practice on your own.

Basic Test Game

This catchily titled game is our "Basic Test Game". A small map with a maze and a few puzzles. "full" documentation is contained in the zip file.

Restmud - A Text Adventure Game For Testers And Developers from Alan Richardson

More Hints and Help

Warning this section has spoilers.

I created a hand drawn map when writing and playing the game. You should too. When you play adventure games, create a map. It does not have to be fancy, it just has to support your play.

I also created a walkthrough of the game, which you can download as a pdf file. This shows an end to end run through of the game, and reveals all of the point scoring secrets and is a complete walkthrough of the game.

Only use this if you get stuck.

Multi-Player Games

The multi-player 'MUD' version is reserved for our workshops and training where we teach more about Web Testing and Rest API testing, so it isn't available to download. Contact Us if you would like some in-house Technical Web Testing workshop where we use a different set of maps in multi-player mode, as part of our training to learn and explore Web and API testing in more detail.

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