"So who or what is Darol?"

The person behind the nickname is Topi Mansikkaviita, long time developer of BatMUD, a fantasy-roleplaying game online. I live in Jyväskylä, Finland.

BatMUD has been a hobby of mine for years and has been great entertainment and has offered things to do. I've gotten very many friends throughout the social community and even from around the globe. Even though everyone is not playing anymore, the friendships last.

Although playing the game once used to be one of the hobbies of mine, programming languages and coding have always been a bigger hobby of mine. When I was offered a chance to develop BatMUD, I was tempted to grasp into that opportunity. It was a good way to actually combine my two hobbies and develop the game in a community that is already familiar to me and professionally speaking it could be seen as a new kind of way of gathering coding experience. Thus I decided to take the whole thing to another level and give it a shot and became a developer (or wizard as they say in the game) 6.12.2005, date that coincidentally is the independence day of Finland.