bussetechsoftware studio

GenMURK

GenMURK — a modern, multiplayer text world (MUD/MUSE): a clean-room rebuild on modern architecture, inspired by the TinyMUSE engine and the mid-90s MIT MicroMUSE instance. Build-in-public living docs; the running app lives at genmurk.com.

GenMURK is a modern multiplayer text world — a MUD/MUSE: many people share one live, navigable place made of rooms, exits, and things, talk in real time, build the world out, and extend it by writing in-world code. It is a clean-room rebuild on modern architecture, worked from decomposed requirements — not an adoption or line-by-line port of any older engine.

Lineage (reference only). GenMURK studies TinyMUSE (a ~31k-line 1990s C MUD/MUSH server in the TinyMUD → TinyMUSH family) and the mid-90s MIT MicroMUSE instance as historical behavioral reference. They are named as lineage on the museum page — never adopted, never ported line-by-line, never GenMURK’s own code or identity. The name honors the MUD/MUSE family (MURK — the earthy sibling of mud/muck/mush).

Build in public — the story so far

This is the build log, published as it happens. Where things stand today:

  • Decomposition is done. The reference behavior is decomposed into four subsystems and twenty behavioral requirements (GM-R1..R20).
  • The rebuild backlog is set, ranked highest-risk-first — the sandboxed softcode runtime leads.
  • Architecture direction is recorded, with one decision honestly still open (how the softcode sandbox is built).
  • PROD is EPIC5. No application ships from here.

Read on:

  • Decomposition & requirements — the four subsystems and the behavioral spec (GM-R1..R20) extracted from the reference.
  • Rebuild backlog — what’s next, ranked; the softcode-sandbox spike first.
  • Decisions — the architecture decision log in public, including the one that’s still open.
  • Museum — the artifact we studied, honestly labelled.

Two surfaces, two homes (do not conflate)

This site is documentation, not PROD. It is the story of the build.

  • This site — the build log — lives at genmurk.bussetech.com, a normal studio subdomain: static, public, and secrets-free by construction. There is no runtime, no login, no data here to leak.
  • The running GenMURK app lives separately at genmurk.com — a Workers-class runtime with a Supabase database, standing up in EPIC5. The app is never deployed to these Pages.

GenMURK is built by a one-person software studio: one human plus a governed workforce of small, single-task agents (“gnomes”), every change arriving as a reviewed pull request. This log tells the honest story of that work.

This is a Bussetech Software Studio project — bussetech | software studio. It is instance 1 of the studio’s build-in-public pattern.

Latest