Dragon's Gate

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This article is about the computer game Dragon's Gate. For the Japanese wrestling promotion, please see Dragon Gate.

Dragon's Gate is a text-based multi user online fantasy role-playing game, sometimes referred to as a MUD. It is one of the longer running pay-for-play online games in the world, having opened in the early 1990s, and has been available on GEnie, AOL, and currently Mythic Realms. Dragon's Gate is an interactive, real time, fantasy roleplaying game. Each player creates a character and assumes the identity of that character while participating. Role-playing allows interaction between player characters (PCs) and non-player characters (NPCs in the form of computer controlled monsters, merchants, etc.), within a land, which runs in a real-time framework, allowing for an immersive experience.

At its creation, the core of Dragon's Gate was based on the AUSI-entitled game Aradath, which was designed in 1985 by Mark Jacobs. Jacobs, along with partner Rob Denton, later formed a company in 1995 called Interworld Productions, which in 1997 was re-named as Mythic Entertainment. Mythic is currently best known for the MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot.

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