Legend of the Green Dragon (abbreviated LoGD or LotGD) is a humor text-based multi-player browser based game. It is a WWW-based implementation and homage to the classic BBS door game Legend of the Red Dragon. Originally written by Eric Stevens ("MightyE"), the copyright now contains both his and JT Traub's names. Version 1.0.0 was released in April 1, 2005. The final release from these maintainers, 1.0.6, was released in January 1, 2006.
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Legend of the Green Dragon (abbreviated LoGD or LotGD) is a humor text-based multi-player browser based game. It is a WWW-based implementation and homage to the classic BBS door game Legend of the Red Dragon. Originally written by Eric Stevens ("MightyE"), the copyright now contains both his and JT Traub's names. Version 1.0.0 was released in April 1, 2005. The final release from these maintainers, 1.0.6, was released in January 1, 2006.
Eric Stevens began writing the PHP version of the game as a side project and after several months opened the game for testing, only to family and close friends. In around 2003 it was somehow seen by a reviewer at Slashdot and despite the reference not being on their front page, character registrations increased dramatically. As of October 2006 , MightyE's server at lotgd.net has approximately 4,600 players, and there are some 5,500 players at the largest German server, lotgd.de. There are some 300 servers listed in the LoGDNET list.
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